Mendesian
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English
Adjective
Mendesian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "His father was one of the Greek mercenaries raised by Hak-Hor, a Mendesian Pharaoh of the twenty-ninth dynasty, and his grandfather or great-grandfather, I believe, was that very Kallikrates mentioned by Herodotus."
Noun
Mendesian (plural Mendesians)
- (historical) A native or inhabitant of the Mendes region of Egypt.