east indies

a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia ;

east malaysia

the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo ;

east midland

the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English ;

east northeast

the compass point midway between northeast and east ;

east pakistan

a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971 ;

east river

a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn ;

east saint louis

a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis ;

east sea

an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan ;

east side

the side that is on the east ;

east southeast

the compass point midway between east and southeast ;

east sussex

a county in southern England on the English Channel ;

east timor

a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation ;

east tocharian

a dialect of Tocharian ;

east turkestan islamic movement

a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression ;

east turkistan islamic movement

a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression ;

east wind

a wind from the east ;

easter

a wind from the east ; a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox ;

easter bunny

a rabbit that delivers Easter eggs ;

easter cactus

spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera ;

easter card

a card expressing an Easter greeting ;

easter daisy

dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona ;

easter day

the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated ;

easter egg

a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter ; an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter ;

easter lily

tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring ;

easter lily vine

evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers ;

easter sunday

the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated ;

easterly

a wind from the east ;

eastern catholicism

the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem ;

eastern chimpanzee

long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees ;

eastern chinquapin

shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts ;

eastern chipmunk

small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches ;

eastern church

the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire ; derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites ;

eastern coral snake

ranges from Central America to southeastern United States ;

eastern cottontail

widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions ;

eastern cottonwood

a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber ;

eastern cricket frog

a cricket frog of eastern United States ;

eastern dasyure

a variety of dasyure ;

eastern desert

a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea ;

eastern fence lizard

small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia ;

eastern flowering dogwood

deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries ;