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kabaragoya

kabaragoya noun: the water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.

kabaragoya: the water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia
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Noun

kabaragoya (plural kabaragoyas)

  1. The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
    • The Chairman said that Kegalla raised the question of protecting the Kabaragoya from destruction and the Department of Agriculture took up the matter[…].1923, The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 60, page 287
    • […]I remember after-school cricket matches on Layard's Road and wickets knocked over by kabaragoyas;[…].2007, Amitav Ghosh, Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times, page 37

kabaragoya meaning in Thai

kabaragoya in Thai

Varanus salvator
เหี้ย hîia

Forms of kabaragoya

pluralkabaragoyas

Origin of kabaragoya

Borrowed from Sinhalese කබරගොයා (kabaragoyā).

Questions about kabaragoya

What does kabaragoya mean?
Kabaragoya means the water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
What is kabaragoya in Thai?
Kabaragoya in Thai is เหี้ย (hîia). See Kabaragoya meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is kabaragoya?
Kabaragoya is a noun.
What is the plural of kabaragoya?
The plural of kabaragoya is kabaragoyas.

Words near kabaragoya in the dictionary

  1. kabana
  2. kabanas
  3. Kabankalan
  4. kabanos
  5. Kabar
  6. kabaragoya
  7. kabaragoyas
  8. Kabard
  9. Kabarda
  10. Kabardas
  11. Kabardia

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