Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Socotran .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa.
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Examples
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Behind his counter he was a superior being, calmly conscious of special knowledge and worth; outside he was a weak-kneed, purblind, motorman-cursed rambler, with ill-fitting clothes stained with chemicals and smelling of socotrine aloes and valerianate of ammonia.
The Four Million O. Henry 1886
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