KARNATAKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Karnataka mean? 

• KARNATAKA (noun)
  The noun KARNATAKA has 1 sense:

1. state in southern India; formerly Mysore

  Familiarity information: KARNATAKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KARNATAKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State in southern India; formerly Mysore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Karnataka; Mysore

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Holonyms ("Karnataka" is a part of...):

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

K. Kemparaju, a professor at the biochemistry department of the University of Mysore, Karnataka, says the researchers have, through the study, made a highly valid effort to scientifically convince and sensitise antivenom producers and policymakers to switch to the making of region-specific antivenom.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

In the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka state, local NGO Agricultural Development and Training Society (ADATS) installed 5,500 biogas units in 2006 and maintained them for the next ten years with support from the forward sale of certified emission reductions (CERs) at a price of US$1.3 million.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)