levant : Idioms & Phrases


Couchant and levant

  • (Law), rising up and lying down; said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, such time being held to include a day and night at the least.
Webster 1913

levant cotton

  • noun Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons
    Gossypium herbaceum.
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levant garlic

  • noun coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
    kurrat; wild leek; Allium ampeloprasum.
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levant morocco

  • noun a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding
    Levant.
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