east by south
1: the compass point that is one point south of due east [syn: {EbS}]
East Chadic
1: a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad
East Coast
1: the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)
East German
1: relating to or characteristic of East Germany; "East German spies" n : a native or inhabitant of the former republic of East Germany
East Germanic
1: an extinct branch of the Germanic languages [syn: {East Germanic language}]
East Germany
1: a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990 [syn: {German Democratic Republic}]
East India
1: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia [syn: {Malay Archipelago}, {East Indies}]
East India Company
1: an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until th...
East India kino
1: reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc [syn: {Malabar kino}, {kino gum}]
East India rosewood
1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn: {Indian blackwood}, {East Indian rosewood}, {Indian rosewood}, {Dalbergia latifolia}]
East Indian
1: of or relating to or located in the East Indies
East Indian fig tree
1: East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks [syn: {banyan}, {banyan tree}, {banian}, {banian tree}, {Indian banyan}, {Ficus bengalensis}]
East Indian rosebay
1: tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand [syn: {crape jasmine}, {crepe jasmine}, {crepe gardenia}, {pinwheel flo...
East Indian rosewood
1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn: {Indian blackwood}, {East India rosewood}, {Indian rosewood}, {Dalbergia latifolia}]
East Indies
1: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia [syn: {Malay Archipelago}, {East India}]
East Malaysia
1: the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo
East Midland
1: the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English
east northeast
1: the compass point midway between northeast and east [syn: {ENE}]
East Pakistan
1: a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in...
East Pakistani
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bangladesh or its people or language; "Bangladeshi dialects" [syn: {Bangladeshi}]
East River
1: a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn
East Saint Louis
1: a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
east southeast
1: the compass point midway between east and southeast [syn: {ESE}]
East Sussex
1: a county in southern England on the English Channel
East Timor
1: a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation
East Tocharian
1: a dialect of Tocharian [syn: {Turfan}, {Turfan dialect}]
East Turkestan Islamic Movement
1: a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression [syn: {East Turkis...
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East Turkistan Islamic Movement
1: a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression [syn: {East Turkes...
east wind
1: a wind from the east [syn: {easter}, {easterly}]
east-central
1: of a region of the United States generally including Kentucky, West Virginia
East-sider
1: a resident of the east side of Manhattan in New York City
eastbound
1: moving toward the east; "eastbound trains" [syn: {eastward}]
Easter
1: a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox 2: a wind from the east [syn: {east wind}, {easterly}]
Easter cactus
1: spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera [syn: {Hatiora gaertneri}, {Schlumbergera gaertneri}]
Easter daisy
1: dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona [syn: {stemless daisy}, ...
Easter Day
1: the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated [syn: {Easter Sunday}]
Easter egg
1: an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter 2: a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter
Easter lily
1: tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring [syn: {Bermuda lily}, {white trumpet lily}, {Lilium longiflorum}]
Easter lily vine
1: evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers [syn: {Nepal trumpet flower}, {Beaumontia grandiflora}]
Easter Sunday
1: the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated [syn: {Easter Day}]
easterly
1: lying in or toward the east; "the east side of NY"; "eastern cities" [syn: {eastern}] 2: from the east; used especially of winds; "an east wind"; "the winds are easterly" [syn: {eastern}] n : a win...
eastern
1: lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island" 2: of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment" [ant: {western}] 3: lying in or to...
Eastern Catholicism
1: the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem
eastern chimpanzee
1: long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees [syn: {Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii}]
eastern chinquapin
1: shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts [syn: {Allegheny chinkapin}, {chinquapin}, {dwarf chestnut}, {Castanea pumila}]
eastern chipmunk
1: small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches [syn: {hackee}, {striped squirrel}, {ground squirrel}, {Tamias striatus}]
Eastern Church
1: derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites [syn: {Orthodox Church}, {Orthodox Catholic Church}, {Eastern Orthodox Church}, {Eastern Orthodox}] 2: the Catholic Church as it ex...
eastern coral snake
1: ranges from Central America to southeastern United States [syn: {Micrurus fulvius}]
eastern cottontail
1: widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions [syn: {Sylvilagus floridanus}]
Eastern cottonwood
1: a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber [syn: {necklace poplar}, {Populus deltoides}]
eastern fence lizard
1: small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia [syn: {pine lizard}, {Sceloporus undulatus}]
eastern flowering dogwood
1: deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries [syn: {common white dogwood}, {Cornus florida}]
eastern fox squirrel
1: exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States [syn: {fox squirrel}, {Sciurus niger}]
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