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Nile(dictionary)
nile(medicine)
Nile, Battle of the(encyclopedia)
Nile (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Nile River(encyclopedia)
Nile perch(encyclopedia)
Victoria Nile(encyclopedia)
Blue Nile(dictionary)
White Nile(dictionary)

Nile (iou)



Nile noun. L19.
[A river which flows from east central Africa northwards through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.]
I.
Used attrib. to designate animals inhabiting the Nile river system. L19.
Nile crocodile the African crocodile Crocodylus niloticus. Nile lechwe a grazing antelope, Kobus megaceros, of flood plains of the Nile. Nile monitor a very large aquatic monitor lizard of sub-Saharan Africa, Varanus niloticus, which is brownish with bands of yellow spots. Nile perch a large carnivorous percoid food fish, Lates niloticus (family Centropomidae), of rivers and lakes in north and central Africa.
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Nile blue [after French bleu de Nil], (a) (of) a pale greenish blue; (b) (a salt, esp. the sulphate, of) a tetracyclic quaternary ammonium ion which is an azine dye used in cytology to stain fatty acids. L19.
Nile green, (of) a pale bluish-green. L19.