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Definition of Cathaya
1. Noun. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cathaya
Literary usage of Cathaya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"... with M. Anthony Jenkinson) of the reports of Russes and other strangers, of
the wayes of Russia to cathaya, and of divers and strange people. ..."
2. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"Whatever be the fact in this case, it appears that, six centuries later, these
countries went under the general name of cathaya, or properly ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... Frobisher's trusted friend, printed in black letters A true discourse of the
late voyages for the finding of a passage to cathaya by the north-weast, ..."
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