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PERHILITAN

PERHILITAN proper noun: department of Wildlife and National Parks, an organisation set up by the Malaysian government to preserve wildlife and national parks in Peninsular Malaysia.

Proper noun

PERHILITAN

  1. (Malaysia) Department of Wildlife and National Parks, an organisation set up by the Malaysian government to preserve wildlife and national parks in Peninsular Malaysia.
    • As animal rights groups slammed the use of elephants in a wedding procession last weekend, the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) responded late last night by announcing it will set up a special task force to review and improve existing laws and standard operating procedures...

Origin of PERHILITAN

Borrowed from Malay PERHILITAN, from initialism of Perlindungan Hidupan Liar dan Taman Negara.

Questions about PERHILITAN

What does PERHILITAN mean?
PERHILITAN means department of Wildlife and National Parks, an organisation set up by the Malaysian government to preserve wildlife and national parks in Peninsular Malaysia.
What part of speech is PERHILITAN?
PERHILITAN is a proper noun.

Words near PERHILITAN in the dictionary

  1. perhapses
  2. perhapsy
  3. Perhentian Islands
  4. perhexiline
  5. perhexilline
  6. PERHILITAN
  7. perhorresce
  8. perhorresced
  9. perhorresces
  10. perhorrescing
  11. perhumid

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