Kanara
or Ca·na·ra
[ kuh-nahr-uh, kah-ner-uh ]
/ kəˈnɑr ə, ˈkɑ nər ə /
noun
a region in SW India, on the Deccan Plateau. About 60,000 sq. mi. (155,400 sq. km).
Example sentences from the Web for kanara
On the west coast are a remarkable series of backwaters or lagoons, fringing the seaboard of Kanara, Malabar and Travancore.
This theory became generally accepted, when suddenly Dr. Bird found a brass plate in a certain Kanara monument, called a tope.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan |Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyWestward, the boundary between it and the Kanara (of the second division) runs in an irregular line to Goa.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man |Robert Gordon LathamPepper proper is confined to the Malabar coast, from Kanara to Travancore.
British Dictionary definitions for kanara
Kanara
Canara
/ (kəˈnɑːrə) /
noun
a region of SW India, in Karnataka on the Deccan Plateau and the W Coast. Area: about 155 000 sq km (60 000 sq miles)