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gean
[ geen ]
gean
/ ɡiːn /
noun
- Also calledwild cherry a white-flowered rosaceous tree, Prunus avium, of Europe, W Asia, and N Africa, the ancestor of the cultivated sweet cherries
- See sweet cherrySee sweet cherry
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Example Sentences
The naiads bathed not in Scamanders stream nor Simois, nor the nereids in the waters of the bright gean Sea.
Grey islets with foam flying over them lay around indistinctly seen through the driving vapour from the gean.
Never again does Athens sit there as a queen looking out upon her gean, but her day of political glory is ended forever.
Whether their hearts were turned Troy-ward in the gean or to some small unsung British tre or Troynovant, who can tell?
He obligingly chained the island to the bottom of the gean Sea, and Latona had no further cause for complaint.
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