Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See chinar-tree.

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  • Babis in 1890 and 1891 as not only cruel acts, but as acts of insane folly, 'for,' he said, 'to kill a Babi is like cutting down a chenar-tree, from the root of which many stems spring up, and one becomes many.'

    Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873

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  • The oriental plane-tree.

    December 13, 2010