Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An East Indian name of species of Calotropis, chiefly C. gigantea, whose root-bark is the source of a drug highly reputed in the East, and whose stembark furnishes the yercum-fiber.
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Examples
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Amir watches his madar sleep, each short breath making him feels as though time is moving faster than it should.
Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011
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Amir watches his madar sleep, each short breath making him feels as though time is moving faster than it should.
Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011
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To make it easy, he will conjure an image of his madar.
Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011
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To make it easy, he will conjure an image of his madar.
Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011
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Browne's jurisdiction may have include Karachi which is where Mushka Khan went to speak with the madar-i wali-ahd, or the widow of Sher Ali and mother-in-law of Sardar Muhammad Hashim Khan, at one time the heir apparent to the Durrani throne, who was said to have information about the original orders. back
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Medicine survey countries by macrosalb while on macrotec developed nosocomial madar places.
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Withal aboarder, padar and madar, hal qnd sal, the sens of Ere with the duchtars of Iran.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I can just shut my eyes and think that the shadows are growing darker under the < i > madar tree, and the water in the pond looks shiny black.
The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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The inside of the nest is well felted with the down of the madar plant, and then it is finally lined with fine hair and grass-stems of the softest kind.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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By the side of my house, there is a road that leads to a region in the mountains called madar.
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