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east india
(wn) | East India
n 1: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between
Asia and Australia [syn: Malay Archipelago, {East
Indies}, East India] |
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east indian
(encz) | East Indian, |
East Indian
(gcide) | East Indian \East" In"di*an\ (?; see Indian).
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. A native
of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.
[1913 Webster] |
East Indian millet
(gcide) | millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L.
milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil.] (Bot.)
The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an
abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of
Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and
Setaria Italica.
Note:
Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense.
Egyptian millet or
East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata.
Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.)
Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing
annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and
bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass.
Texas millet is Panicum Texanum.
Wild millet, or
Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in
woods.
[1913 Webster] |
east india company
(wn) | East India Company
n 1: an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the
new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the
18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal
and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after
the Indian Mutiny |
east india kino
(wn) | East India kino
n 1: reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the
genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc
[syn: East India kino, Malabar kino, kino gum] |
east india rosewood
(wn) | East India rosewood
n 1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn:
Indian blackwood, East Indian rosewood, {East India
rosewood}, Indian rosewood, Dalbergia latifolia] |
east indian
(wn) | East Indian
adj 1: of or relating to or located in the East Indies
n 1: a native or inhabitant of the East Indies |
east indian fig tree
(wn) | East Indian fig tree
n 1: East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down
into the soil forming additional trunks [syn: banyan,
banyan tree, banian, banian tree, Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis] |
east indian rosebay
(wn) | East Indian rosebay
n 1: tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal
flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to
Thailand [syn: crape jasmine, crepe jasmine, {crepe
gardenia}, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay,
Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose,
Tabernaemontana divaricate] |
east indian rosewood
(wn) | East Indian rosewood
n 1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn:
Indian blackwood, East Indian rosewood, {East India
rosewood}, Indian rosewood, Dalbergia latifolia] |
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