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Gossypium religiosum

Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also nankin.]

  1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton ( Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

  2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

  3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen.
    --Ld. Lytton.

    Nankeen bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian night heron ( Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.