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himalayan
/ˈhɪm.əˌleɪ.ən/
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What does himalayan mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to the Himalayas.
- (figuratively) Huge, gigantic, enormously large.
noun
- An inhabitant of the Himalayas.
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noun
- A domestic cat breed similar to (and, in some places, considered a variety of) the Persian breed, but with the colourpoint coat pattern of the Siamese.
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/ˈhɪm.əˌleɪ.ən/
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The following Himalayan species have been found to thrive well in the warmer parts of England, and in close proximity to the sea;--R.
According to Mr. Fraser, the natives of a village near the banks of the Girree, in the Himalayan region of India, had the following custom (Quart.
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The Yaks of the Himalayan uplands must feed from the growing grass, scanty and dry though it may be, and would starve even if allowed the best oats and corn.
I finished yesterday evening the first volume, and I very sincerely congratulate you on having produced a FIRST-CLASS book ('Himalayan Journal.')--a book which certainly will last.
The herd dogs of foreign countries, such as the Calabrian of the Pyrenees, the Himalayan drover's dog, and the Russian Owtchah, are all of them massive and powerful animals, far larger and fiercer than our own, though each of them, and notably the Owtchah, has many points in common with the English bob-tail.