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mervian
adj 1noun 1
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2VERB + MERVIAN
entered
MERVIAN + NOUN
miles, oasis
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adj
1
Of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.
We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectares...
noun
1
A person of Merv.
The circumstances of the submission of the Mervians are furnished by the World, a small newspaper owned and edited by M. Komaroff, late chief of General Tchernaieff's staff in Servia...
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We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectares...
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The circumstances of the submission of the Mervians are furnished by the World, a small newspaper owned and edited by M. Komaroff, late chief of General Tchernaieff's staff in Servia...
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