Crossword clues for nilotic
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Nilotic
Nilotic \Ni*lot"ic\, a. [L. Niloticus, fr. Nilus the Nile, Gr. ?: cf. F. nilotique.] Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.
Usage examples of "nilotic".
Here were deposited charts of the coast, and of the navigation of the Nile, which were engraved on pillars, and in aftertimes sketched out upon the Nilotic Papyrus.
Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the AEmilian--some from farthest south, Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, 70 Meroe, Nilotic isle, and, more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor sea.