Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, sauntered about among the mixed population of Somanlis, Banyans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Aden. View in context More results ► Dictionary...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook (redirected fromParsees) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Par·si alsoPar·see(pär′sē, pär-sē′) n.pl.Par·sisalsoPar·sees A member of a Zoroastrian religious sect in India. [PersianPārsī, fromPārs, Persia, from Old PersianPārsā.] ...
Everything now looks so quiet and peaceful — the great hills stretching up to heaven and the tiny villages under the banyans sheltering at their feet. PHOTO "These country people, although nominally Christian, are dreadfully ignorant. Speak of women's work! It is, I think, most necessary. ...
(about 10,000), including various dipterocarps, figs and banyans, mimosas, screw pines, palms, and bananas. There are numerous ferns, lianas, and epiphytes, as well as bamboo thickets. Tropical forests on red earths, with teak, sal tree, and mahogany, occupy large areas in the north. ...