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adjective(Egyp-tian)of, relating to, or characteristic of Egypt or the Egyptians
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noun(Egyp-tian)a native or inhabitant of Egypt
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noun(Egyp-tian)the Afro-Asiatic language of the ancient Egyptians from earliest times to about the third century a.d.
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noun(Egyp-tian)a typeface having little contrast between thick and thin strokes and squared serifs
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noun(Egyp-tian)an Old World weevil (Hypera brunneipennis) that is now a pest of alfalfa in western North America
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noun(Egyp-tian)berseem
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noun(Egyp-tian)a fine long-staple often somewhat brownish cotton grown chiefly in Egypt
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noun(Egyp-tian)the language of ancient Egypt from the earliest texts to about 2000 B.C.
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noun(Egyp-tian)a succulent annual clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) cultivated as a forage plant and green-manure crop especially in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley and in the southwestern U.S. —called also Egyptian clover
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geographical name(Egyp-tian)region of northern Africa between the Atlantic and the upper Nile River south of the Sahara Desert including the basins of Lake Chad and the Niger River and the upper Nile
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geographical name(Egyp-tian)former country in northeastern Africa
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geographical name(Egyp-tian)country bordering the Red Sea in northeastern Africa south of Egypt; capital Khartoum area 728,216 square miles (1,886,079 square kilometers), population 30,900,000