persian : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan
  Dari.
  

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• the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond.

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• noun a long-haired breed of cat
  

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Angora cat, under Angora.

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• (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represents a Persian slave; called also Persians. See Atlantes.

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• noun a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians
  

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• (Mech.), a drill which is turned by pushing a nut back and forth along a spirally grooved drill holder.

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• noun an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
  Persia.
  

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• (Med.), malignant pustule.

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• noun a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula; the Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world
  Arabian Gulf.
  

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• noun a medical condition of uncertain origin that affected many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War; characterized by fatigue and headache and dizziness and nausea and rashes and joint pain and respiratory disorders
  Gulf War syndrome.
  

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• noun a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; 1990-1991
  Gulf War.
  

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• noun bulbous iris native to Asia Minor cultivated for its pale lilac-colored flowers
  Iris persica.
  

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• noun the fur of a karakul lamb
  
• noun a karakul lamb
  

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• noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
  azedarach; azederach; China tree; Melia azederach; chinaberry tree; chinaberry; Melia azedarach; pride-of-India.
  
• noun small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers
  Syringa persica.
  

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• noun any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
  honeydew melon; Cucumis melo inodorus; winter melon; winter melon vine.
  
• noun the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large green melon with orange flesh
  

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• . See Insect powder, under Insect.

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• . See Indian red (a), under Indian.

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• noun perennial cultivated especially as a houseplant for its fragrant bluish to dark lavender flowers
  Exacum affine.
  

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• noun Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
  Juglans regia; Circassian walnut; English walnut; English walnut tree.
  

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• a noria; a tympanum. See Noria.

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