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- adjective Of or pertaining to the river
Ganges .
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Examples
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It is sometimes called the Gangetic crocodile, but it is even uglier than either crocodile or alligator, and differs from both in several important particulars.
The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850
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Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The Gangetic dolphin remains endangered, although the number of Asiatic lions has recently increased.
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"The way the tiger restores forest ecosystems, the snow leopard restores mountain ecosystems, and the Gangetic dolphin restores waters in the rivers, in the same way the cheetah will restore our grasslands."
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The Gangetic basin alone is home to 500 million people, about 10% of the total human population in the region.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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The Gangetic basin alone is home to 500 million people, about 10% of the total human population in the region.
Archive 2009-07-01 EliRabett 2009
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The park's location in the Gangetic Plain makes it an unrivaled breeding site for herons, storks and cormorants and an important wintering ground for large numbers of migrant ducks.
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I grew up around the Gangetic planes of eastern India, in a small town called Chandan Nagar about 25 miles from Calcutta.
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The area consists of a flat patchwork of marshes in the Gangetic plain, artificially created in the 1850s and maintained ever since by a system of canals, sluices and dykes.
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However, much water has flown down the Gangetic valley civilization.
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