Wikipedia
Nilgiri, which literally means "Blue Mountain" in many languages, may refer to:
- Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, an International Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats and Nilgiri Hills ranges of South India
- Nilgiri mountains, a range of mountains spanning the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India
- Nilagiri or Nilgiri, a town in Balasore District of the state of Odisha in East India
- The Nilgiris District, a region of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
- Nilgiri (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency), Assembly constituency of Odisha, India
- Nilgiri tea, a dark intensely aromatic and flavourful tea grown around the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India
- Nilgiris (supermarket), supermarket chain in South India
- Nilgiri Himal, a range of three peaks in the Annapurna region in Nepal
- INS Nilgiri (F33) class frigate
- Nilgiri, a hill resort in the Bandarban District of Bangladesh
Nilgiri (Sl. No.: 40) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Balasore district, Odisha.
Area of this constituency include Nilagiri, Nilgiri block, Oupada block and 4 GPs (Kasabajayapur, Khantapada, Panapana and Patharpentha) of Bahanaga block.
In 2009 election, Independent candidate Pratap Chandra Sarangi defeated Communist Party of India candidate Pradipta Panda by a margin of 3,056 votes.
Usage examples of "nilgiri".
Brandy stood to meet him, Nilgiri huddled silently at her feet, staring up.
She could picture herself standing naked, her neckline ragged and blood-smeared, with the head of a Nilgiri stag, proud and black-eyed, antlers rising like a bizarre crown.
Most of our birds and reptiles, and our lemurs, rhinos, orang-utans, mandrills, lion-tailed macaques, giraffes, anteaters, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, Himalayan and sloth bears, Indian elephants and Nilgiri tahrs, among others, were in demand, but others, Elfie for example, were met with silence.
That was how she would look if she had the body of a womana perfect body like she used to have, before marriage, before motherhood, before living well and drinking and eating even better took their tolland the head of a Nilgiri stag.
I was deep in the forest, hot on the trail of a Nilgiri staga big one.