Definition of Nandin

1. an evergreen shrub [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nandin

namuwite
nan
nana
nanaomycin
nanaomycin B synthetase
nanaomycin D reductase
nanas
nances
nanchon
nanchons
nancies
nancified
nancy pants
nandin (current term)
nandina
nandinas
nandine
nandines
nandins
nandoo
nandoos
nandrolone
nandrolone phenylpropionate
nandrolones
nandu
nandus
nane
naner

Literary usage of Nandin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... it is hardly possible to distinguish the one from the other except by the leaves." The varieties of the melon seem to be endless, for nandin after six ..."

2. The Kathá sarit ságara; or, Ocean of the streams of story [by Somadeva] tr by Somadeva (1880)
"All of them, when they heard this from nandin, agreed to it. ... And at the end of the feast, nandin and the others gave them all celestial garlands, robes, ..."

3. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"South-Eastern States of North-America. Adapted for consolidating drift-sand of coasts [Prof. nandin]. Very near A. provincialis. ..."

4. Antiquities of India: An Account of the History and Culture of Ancient Hindustan by Lionel David Barnett (1914)
"371 The NANDA dynasty of Magadha was founded by the usurper Maha-padma Nanda, son of Maha-nandin by a Sudra woman, about 371. It is said to have comprised ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"As to the performance, nandin, Faure and Saxe, whom the composer had himself pointed out before hii death as ... nandin is not exactly modelled like a hero, ..."

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