egyptian : Idioms & Phrases

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Egyptian bean

  • noun perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
    hyacinth bean; bonavist; Dolichos lablab; Lablab purpureus; Indian bean.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) The beanlike fruit of an aquatic plant (Nelumbium speciosum), somewhat resembling the water lily. (b) See under Bean, #1
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egyptian capital

  • noun the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
    capital of Egypt; Cairo; El Qahira; Al Qahira.
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egyptian cat

  • noun a domestic cat of Egypt
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egyptian cobra

  • noun cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death
    Naja haje; asp.
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egyptian corn

  • noun sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
    Guinea corn; Indian millet; durra; doura; dourah.
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egyptian cotton

  • noun fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton
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Egyptian cross

  • . See Illust. (No. 6) of Cross.
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egyptian deity

  • noun a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians
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egyptian empire

  • noun an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament
    Egypt.
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egyptian grass

  • noun a creeping grass with spikes like fingers
    crowfoot grass; Dactyloctenium aegypticum.
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egyptian henbane

  • noun poisonous herb whose leaves are a source of hyoscyamine
    Hyoscyamus muticus.
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egyptian islamic jihad

  • noun an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
    Islamic Jihad; Vanguards of Conquest; al-Jihad.
    • the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981
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egyptian lupine

  • noun white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control
    wolf bean; white lupine; field lupine; Lupinus albus.
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egyptian monetary unit

  • noun monetary unit in Egypt
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egyptian onion

  • noun type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers
    tree onion; Allium cepa viviparum; top onion.
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egyptian paper reed

  • noun tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
    Cyperus papyrus; Egyptian paper reed; papyrus; paper plant; paper rush.
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egyptian paper rush

  • noun tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
    Cyperus papyrus; Egyptian paper reed; papyrus; paper plant; paper rush.
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egyptian pea

  • noun Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds
    chickpea; Cicer arietinum; chickpea plant.
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egyptian pound

  • noun the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
    pound.
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Egyptian thorn

  • (Bot.), a medium-sized tree (Acacia vera). It is one of the chief sources of the best gum arabic.
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egyptian vulture

  • noun small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
    Pharaoh's chicken; Neophron percnopterus.
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egyptian water lily

  • noun white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians
    lotus; white lotus; Nymphaea lotus; white lily.
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