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[poor-ee, poo-ree] | a seaport in E Orissa, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal: temple of Krishna; Hindu pilgrimage center. 72,712. Compare Juggernaut (def. 2). |
r-ee] | a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried. |
| poo·ri also pu·ri (pŏŏr'ē) n. pl. poo·ris also pu·ris A light unleavened wheat bread of Pakistan and northern India, usually fried in deep fat. [Hindi pūrī, from Sanskrit pūraḥ, cake; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
| pu·ri (pŏŏr'ē) n. Variant of poori. |
Puri
two South American Indian tribes closely related in language and culture. According to a Coroado tradition, a feud between two families had caused the aboriginal tribe to divide in two. They lived in the lowlands of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The Puri language is a dialect of Coroado, of the Macro-Ge linguistic group
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