Kannur

[ kuh-noor ]

noun

1. a port in N Kerala, in SW India, on the Arabian Sea.

Example Sentences

Some 75% of the remaining mangroves across Kerala are in the hands of private individuals and could be cleared for more lucrative intensive shrimp farming, said M. Ramit, a program officer for the Wildlife Trust of India, who is working on a project to restore mangroves in Kannur, a coastal district in northern Kerala.

From Seattle Times

Before that, her father says, Afra didn't step out much from her house in Kerala's Kannur district.

From BBC

Shyja, who uses only one name, lives in Kannur district in the southern state of Kerala.

From BBC

Fed up with the direction of the party, she left politics eight years ago and settled into a position teaching law at Kannur University in Kerala.

From New York Times

Bindu Ammini, 40, a law lecturer at Kerala’s Kannur University and Kanakadurga, 39, a civil servant, told Reuters they were determined to enter despite threats of violence.

From Reuters