Amazonian
a native or inhabitant of the area adjoining the Amazon River.
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How to use Amazonian in a sentence
An Amazonian plant has had botanists scratching their heads since 1973.
After 50 years, botanists finally identified this Amazonian plant | Margo Milanowski | October 10, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe source material, published between 1973 and 2019, tried to quantify how much wild meat, including many species of mammals and birds, contributed to the diets of a total of 150,000 people living in the Amazonian and Afro-tropical areas.
How bushmeat could help us meet the world’s climate goals | Doug Johnson | October 7, 2021 | Ars TechnicaThe gut is basically an Amazonian forest, densely populated by microbes of all sorts—bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome | Shelly Fan | August 10, 2021 | Singularity HubJeff Bezos and his Amazonian empire may want to learn something from today’s Parthian equivalents and never underestimate an opponent, no matter how outnumbered they may seem.
Going forward, the Amazonian capital could now help public health officials better understand how long immunity to covid-19 lasts and how often the virus reinfects people.
A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world | Amy Nordrum | September 22, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast.
Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman: A Hamas-Bashing, Ex-IDF Soldier and Former Miss Israel | Marlow Stern | July 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1993, some 73 Yanomami Indians died in clashes with Amazonian gold miners.
Dr. Amy Lehman is the Amazonian like surgeon whose mission is to build a state of the art medical clinic--on a boat.
Meet the Visionary Behind Africa's 'Floating Clinic' | Casey Schwartz | March 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTTelevision to develop a take on the lasso-happy Amazonian warrior.
Wonder Woman: A Sneak Peek at David E. Kelley's Script | Jace Lacob | February 2, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTAmazonian Field, by Antony Gormley, is one particularly evocative example.
In Dahomey the Amazonian guards of the king perform all military duty with equal ease and thoroughness with men.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender BrackettHer vigour was truly Amazonian, and at no time had I ever occasion to contend with a more formidable opponent.
Caleb Williams | William GodwinThose who have traversed the Amazonian forests have made the same remark.
South America Observations and Impressions | James BryceBut she was, nevertheless, a heroine of the Amazonian species.
The House by the Church-Yard | J. Sheridan Le FanuThese found themselves 'courageously resisted by the towns-men and-women, Amazonian-like.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts | Rosalind Northcote
British Dictionary definitions for Amazonian
/ (æməˈzəʊnɪən) /
of or relating to the Amazon river, the land around it, or the inhabitants of this land
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