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jheels

jheels is the plural 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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Questions about jheels

What is jheels the plural of?
Jheels is the plural of jheel.

Words near jheels in the dictionary

  1. jhaump
  2. jhaumps
  3. Jhaveri
  4. Jhaveris
  5. jheel
  6. jheels
  7. jheenga
  8. Jhejiang
  9. Jhelum
  10. Jhenaidah District
  11. Jheri

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