eastern : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem
  

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• noun long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees
  Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii.
  

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• noun shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
  Castanea pumila; chinquapin; Allegheny chinkapin; dwarf chestnut.
  

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• noun small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches
  Tamias striatus; ground squirrel; striped squirrel; hackee.
  

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• noun derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
  Orthodox Church; Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Orthodox Catholic Church.
  
• noun the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
  Byzantine Church.
  

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• . See Greek Church, under Greek.

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• noun ranges from Central America to southeastern United States
  Micrurus fulvius.
  

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• noun widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions
  Sylvilagus floridanus.
  

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• noun a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber
  necklace poplar; Populus deltoides.
  

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• noun a cricket frog of eastern United States
  Acris gryllus.
  

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• noun a variety of dasyure
  Dasyurus quoll.
  

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• noun a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea
  Arabian Desert.
  

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• noun small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia
  Sceloporus undulatus; pine lizard.
  

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• noun deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries
  common white dogwood; Cornus florida.
  

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• noun exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States
  Sciurus niger; fox squirrel.
  

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• noun common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England
  eastern gray squirrel; cat squirrel; Sciurus carolinensis.
  

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• noun common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England
  eastern gray squirrel; cat squirrel; Sciurus carolinensis.
  

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• noun in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America
  Potamophis striatula; Haldea striatula.
  

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• noun the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
  orient.
  

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• noun common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
  spruce pine; Tsuga canadensis; Canadian hemlock.
  

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• noun a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia
  Great Dividing Range.
  

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• noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
  ironwood; Ostrya virginiana; ironwood tree.
  

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• noun a variety of indigo snake
  Drymarchon corais couperi.
  

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• noun a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail
  

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• noun a kind of gorilla
  Gorilla gorilla grauri.
  

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• noun an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages
  Oceanic.
  

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• noun a meadowlark of eastern North America
  Sturnella magna.
  

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• noun small toad of southeastern United States
  Gastrophryne carolinensis.
  

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• noun derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
  Orthodox Church; Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Orthodox Catholic Church.
  
• adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox; Greek Orthodox; Orthodox.
  

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• noun derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
  Orthodox Church; Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Orthodox Catholic Church.
  

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• noun short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
  wild crocus; blue tulip; Pulsatilla patens; American pasqueflower; prairie anemone; American pulsatilla; Anemone ludoviciana; lion's beard.
  

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• noun one of the smallest bats of eastern North America
  Pipistrellus subflavus.
  

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• noun poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact
  Rhus quercifolia; Toxicodendron quercifolium; Rhus toxicodenedron.
  

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• noun small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles
  red cedar; red juniper; Juniperus virginiana.
  

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• noun common salamander of eastern North America
  Plethodon cinereus.
  

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• noun a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
  Byzantine Empire; Byzantium.
  

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• noun a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
  American Samoa; AS.
  

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• noun a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux
  Santee Dakota; Santee Sioux; Santee.
  

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• noun medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
  yellow spruce; Picea rubens; red spruce.
  

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• noun standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
  Eastern Standard Time; EST.
  

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• noun standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
  Eastern Standard Time; EST.
  

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• noun a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan)
  Jagatai; Jaghatai; Chagatai.
  

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• noun the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
  East.
  

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• noun tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree
  weymouth pine; American white pine; Pinus strobus.
  

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• noun large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
  Neotoma floridana.
  

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• noun a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO
  IBDA-C.
  

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• adjective of or relating to or located in the Middle East
  

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