Bactrian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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By 327BC, Alexander the Great had conquered the region and married a Bactrian woman named Roxana, after defeating the Achaemenid ruler.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024
In this case, the researchers were able to work out the Kushan meaning using parallel inscriptions in Bactrian carved into rocks found at Almosi Gorge and at Dašt-i Nāwur, in Afghanistan, in the 1960s.
From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2023
It has cloned critically endangered, double-humped wild Bactrian camels using the eggs and surrogate mothers of single humped camels, Wani said.
From Reuters • May 25, 2023
For example, the use of Greek continued as a remnant of Alexander the Great’s empire, and Bactrian was an Iranian language from what is now Afghanistan.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
I hugged my Bactrian camel’s limp neck and frantically searched for Mara’s jade sash.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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