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nankin (czen) | nankin,nankeen Zdeněk Brož |
nankin (gcide) | Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also
nankin.]
1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought
from China, made of a species of cotton ({Gossypium
religiosum}) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color
quite indestructible and permanent.
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2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
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Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
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nanking (encz) | Nanking, |
Nanking (gcide) | Nanjing \Nanjing\, Nanking \Nanking\prop. n.
a former capital of China.
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Perilla Nankinensis (gcide) | Perilla \Pe*ril"la\, prop. n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.)
A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species ({Perilla
ocimoides}, or Perilla Nankinensis) is often cultivated for
its purple or variegated foliage.
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nanking (wn) | Nanking
n 1: a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former
capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the
1930s [syn: Nanjing, Nanking] |
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