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anab·a·sis
\əˈnabəsə̇s\ noun
Etymology: Greek, act of going up, expedition up from the coast into Asia, increasing period of a disease, from anabainein to go up, to go up from the coast — more at anabaena
1. plural anaba·ses \-əˌsēz\ : a going or marching up : advance
< anabasis or slump — Wallace Stevens >
especially : a military advance
< the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon — Thomas De Quincey >
2. capitalized [New Latin, from Latin, a plant, from Greek] : a genus of small woody or herbaceous perennials (family Chenopodiaceae) native to the Caucasus and nearby regions and having jointed stems and opposite fleshy often reduced leaves
3. plural anabases [so called from the fact that a famous retreat of Greek mercenaries from the Euphrates to the Black sea is described in the Anabasis, historical work by Xenophon died ab355 B.C. Greek historian & essayist] : a difficult and dangerous military retreat |