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bheel

bheel is the alternative form of jheel.

Meaning of jheel

Noun

jheel (plural jheels)

  1. (India) A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
    • In Spring, it is ablaze with roses; in Summer, the roses die and the hot winds blow from the hills; in Autumn, the white mists from the jhils cover the place as with water, and in Winter the frosts nip everything young and tender to earth-level.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 59

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Noun capitalized: Bheel

Bheel (plural Bheels or Bheel)

  1. (dated) Dated form of Bhil.

Proper noun capitalized: Bheel

Bheel

  1. (dated) Dated form of Bhil.

Forms of bheel

pluralbheels
pluralBheels
pluralBheel

Questions about bheel

What is bheel the alternative form of?
Bheel is the alternative form of jheel.
What part of speech is bheel?
Bheel can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bheel?
The plural of bheel is bheels.

Words near bheel in the dictionary

  1. BHBs
  2. BHC
  3. BHCA
  4. BHD
  5. Bhd.
  6. bheel
  7. bheels
  8. Bheem
  9. bheer
  10. bheers
  11. bheestee

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