Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of central and northwest Bolivia rising in the Andes and flowing about 1,600 km (995 mi) to the Mamoré River.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name (‘Japanese beni’) of Caryopteris (Mastacanthus) incana, a har shrub native to China and Japan, cultivated for its late summer bloom.
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Examples
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From there, we had an express taxi ready to drive us the few hundred kilometers north (and 13,000 feet down) to Rurrenabaque, up in Beni.
Rurrenabaque… Just as hard to get to as it is to pronounce! « Wanderings 2008
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They are known as the Beni-ammi (Gen. 19: 38), Ammi or Ammon being worshipped as their chief god.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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The Arabs say that an ancient tribe called Beni Tamour fabricated them.
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El Hossn is the principal village of the district called Beni
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The Arabs say that an ancient tribe called Beni Tamour fabricated them.
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El Hossn is the principal village of the district called Beni
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El Hossn is the principal village of the district called Beni
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El Hossn is the principal village of the district called Beni
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In the Eastern Desert, at three or four days 'journey from Medina, lives a whole Bedouin tribe, called Beni Aly, who are all of this Persian creed; and it is matter of astonishment to find the two most holy spots of the orthodox Muselman religion surrounded, one by the sectaries of Zeyd, and the other by those of Aly, without an attempt having been made to dislodge them.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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X HE family of Merini, which is alfo called Beni-Aotas, was fo lightly efteemed that it was not able to render its authority refpectable in the kingdom of Fez.
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