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Definition of Chinars
1. chinar [n] - See also: chinar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinars
Literary usage of Chinars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan: Personal Narrative of a Journey of by Mark Aurel Stein (1904)
"... Commissariat Conductor kept ready for me under a group of fine chinars by the
roadside where on sunny days he transacts the business of his office. ..."
2. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"... called chinars, and a wild Olive called jida (Eleagnus hortensis et E.
angustifolia}. We often Willow, of which there are upwards of nineteen varieties, ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"... and the architectural pomp of Oriental springs, with then- wide-spreading
chinars, are all existing attestations of a principle universally admitted, ..."
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