gean
Origin of gean
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How to use gean in a sentence
The naiads bathed not in Scamanders stream nor Simois, nor the nereids in the waters of the bright gean Sea.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowGrey islets with foam flying over them lay around indistinctly seen through the driving vapour from the gean.
The British Expedition to the Crimea | William Howard RussellNever again does Athens sit there as a queen looking out upon her gean, but her day of political glory is ended forever.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 | VariousWhether their hearts were turned Troy-ward in the gean or to some small unsung British tre or Troynovant, who can tell?
Archaic England | Harold BayleyHe obligingly chained the island to the bottom of the gean Sea, and Latona had no further cause for complaint.
Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker
British Dictionary definitions for gean
/ (ɡiːn) /
Also called: wild cherry a white-flowered rosaceous tree, Prunus avium, of Europe, W Asia, and N Africa, the ancestor of the cultivated sweet cherries
Origin of gean
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