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Cydonia   /sɪdˈoʊniə/   Listen
Cydonia

noun
1.
Quince.  Synonym: genus Cydonia.



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"Cydonia" Quotes from Famous Books



... the foresight of Antonius had provided his vessels for the purpose of placing the captive buccaneers in irons, served to fasten the quaestor and the other Roman prisoners to the masts of the captured Roman ships, when the Cretan generals Lasthenes and Panares steered back in triumph to Cydonia from the naval combat in which they had engaged the Romans off their island. Antonius, after having squandered immense sums and accomplished not the slightest result by his inconsiderate mode of warfare, died in 683 at Crete. The ill success of his expedition, the costliness ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen



Words linked to "Cydonia" :   genus Cydonia, rose family, Cydonia oblonga, quince, family Rosaceae, quince bush, Rosaceae, rosid dicot genus



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