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Definition of Brahmas
1. brahma [n] - See also: brahma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brahmas
Literary usage of Brahmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1860)
"Whereupon Maraya WHS dismayed and defeated, and acknowledging the superiority of
Budh. tied ashamed, and all the gods and brahmas of the universe came and ..."
2. Agriculture by William Penn Brooks (1911)
"814- Dark brahmas — A hardy meat breed about one pound lighter in weight than
Light brahmas. Fair layers of brown eggs. Persistent sitters. FIG. 166. ..."
3. Report of the Commissioners [and Appendices A to S] by Ontario Agricultural Commission (1880), Samuel Casey Wood (1881)
"Mr. James Anderson, of Puslinch, regards the Dorkings or the Plymouth Rock as
the finest table-birds in the list, although the brahmas make the best mothers ..."
4. The Book of Poultry by Lewis Wright (1885)
"brahmas. THE controversy which was carried on so long and so keenly regarding
the original source of the Brahma fowl is chiefly interesting in so far as it ..."
5. The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and by William Bernhard Tegetmeier (1867)
"... flight feathers turned outside the wing. Birds not feathered on the legs,
scales on. the legs of the whites either green or willow. brahmas. ..."
6. Poultry Culture: How to Raise, Manage, Mate and Judge Thoroughbred Fowls by Isaac Kimbal Felch (1902)
"This sub-strain (so to speak) which comprised the brahmas in and about Philadelphia
in 1866, were the winners in the Philadelphia and the New York ..."