Definition of Cathaya

1. Noun. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere.

Group relationships: Genus Cathaya
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cathaya

Cathar
Catharacta
Catharacta skua
Catharanthus
Catharanthus alkaloids
Catharanthus roseus
Cathari
Catharine
Catharism
Catharist
Cathars
Cathartes
Cathartes aura
Cathartidae
Cathay
Cathaya
Cathayan
Cathayans
Cathays
Cathedral City
Cather
Catherine
Catherine Howard
Catherine I
Catherine II
Catherine Parr
Catherine de Medicis
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine the Great
Catherine wheel

Literary usage of Cathaya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"... with M. Anthony Jenkinson) of the reports of Russes and other strangers, of the wayes of Russia to cathaya, and of divers and strange people. ..."

2. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"Whatever be the fact in this case, it appears that, six centuries later, these countries went under the general name of cathaya, or properly ..."

3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... Frobisher's trusted friend, printed in black letters A true discourse of the late voyages for the finding of a passage to cathaya by the north-weast, ..."

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