Crossword clues for praya
WordNet
n. colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long
Wikipedia
Praya was a term used in Colonial Hong Kong to refer to a promenade by the waterfront. The name comes from the Portuguese term for the broad stone-faced road that runs parallel along the harbour in front of the city. HSBC and Dent & Co. were just some of the major companies based in the area.
Praya can be:
- Praya (musician), musician.
- Praya was a term used in Colonial Hong Kong to refer to a promenade by the waterfront.
- Praya, Lombok, a town in Indonesia.
- Praya, a genus of siphonophores.
Praya is a genus of marine invertebrates in the order Siphonophora. They are colonial, but the colonies can superficially resemble jellyfish; although they appear to be a single organism, each specimen is actually a colony of Siphonophora. It contains the following species:
- Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830)
- Praya reticulata (Bigelow, 1911)
Usage examples of "praya".
Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
And what Elemental could have caused the Irish Famine, praya Potato Elemental?
He tells me about the lofty mountains of Porta Praya, and their groves of cocoa-nut trees and tracts of lava plains and herds of goats.
At the same time her people prepared to unmoor, and shortly after the last boat had been hoisted in, her eighteen-inch cables began to fill the tiers, bringing with them a great deal of water and the distinctive smell of Porto Praya ooze, which at least made a change in the stagnant fetor of the orlop.
Now the Leopard might have been sailing fresh from Porto Praya, apart from the fact that her decks were so thinly peopled.
Jago--Prevented from anchoring in Port au Praya Bay by a contrary wind--Sail to the southward--Pass the Equator--Ceremony of ducking and shaving--Make Cape Frio--Anchor in the harbour of Rio Janeiro.
De Suffrein found Johnstone in the neutral part of Praya, in the island of St.
St Jago, our captain intending to complete his water in Port Praya Bay, previous to a long cruise after the American squadron.
I walked to Port Praya, and returned to my floating prison, the slave ship.
I turned away with disgust, and walked slowly towards the town and bay of Port Praya, reflecting as I went along what pleasant ideas the poor creatures must entertain of religion, when the name of God and of the cowskin were invariably associated in their minds.
By the breath of my mad typhoon I swept your close-packed Praya and beached your best at Kowloon!
November the Essex, after an uneventful voyage, anchored at Porto Praya, in the Cape Verdes, where she remained five days.
I turned away with disgust, and walked slowly towards the town and bay of Port Praya, reflecting as I went along what pleasant ideas the poor creatures must entertain of religion, when the name of God and of the cowskin were invariably associated in their minds.
The vesper bells at Port Praya were now summoning the poor black friars to their devotion.