Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as adeno-.
  • noun Same as Eden.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an important port of Yemen; located on the Gulf of Aden; its strategic location has made it a major trading center of southern Arabia since ancient times

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Examples

  • Ma'aden's $5.5 billion endeavor promises to make the kingdom the world's largest exporter of diammonium phosphate, a fertilizer.

    Sunday, August 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Ma'aden's $5.5 billion endeavor promises to make the kingdom the world's largest exporter of diammonium phosphate, a fertilizer.

    Monday, August 18, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Ma'aden's Mr. Dabbagh, standing in front of a big map of the kingdom in his Riyadh office, traces how a new railroad line under construction will bring tons of bauxite, phosphates and magnesite from the mine to the Persian Gulf city of Ras az Zwar.

    Saudi Industrial Drive 2007

  • Ma'aden's Mr. Dabbagh, standing in front of a big map of the kingdom in his Riyadh office, traces how a new railroad line under construction will bring tons of bauxite, phosphates and magnesite from the mine to the Persian Gulf city of Ras az Zwar.

    Saudi Arabia's industrial drive 2007

  • We have used the downturn to improve our position with a better portfolio with better costs and with future growth like Ma'aden which is substantially going to increase our competitiveness.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington advocacy group, recently sued KFC parent Yum Brands Inc. for using trans-fat-l aden cooking oil.

    Dr. Fehr’s Bean Oil Trumps Trans Fat | Impact Lab 2006

  • So here comes Ppt aden [5] with her little watery postscript.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • The scientific name is derived from a combination of the Greek aden, "a gland," and anthera, "anther"; alluding to the anthers being tipped with a deciduous gland.

    Chapter 10 1996

  • The scientific name is derived from a combination of the Greek aden, "a gland," and anthers, "anther"; alluding to the aCircassianbeananthers being tipped with a deciduous gland The tree is known by a host of common names, including red-bead tree, red sandalwood, and Circassian-bean in English; raktakambal (India); saga (Malaysia); lope (Samoa and Tonga); coralitos, peronias, and jumble-bead (Caribbean).

    Chapter 39 1990

  • "I'se been to Soogar Wiver, and I don't know how to det home aden, I'se so vewy tired, and I toodn't cwack the candy, and I want to see dwandma," and Tot's words ended in a wail of inarticulate woe.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

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