Iberian
Americanadjective
noun
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a member of a group of ancient Caucasoid peoples who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula in preclassical and classical times See also Celtiberian
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a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula; a Spaniard or Portuguese
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a native or inhabitant of ancient Iberia in the Caucasus
adjective
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denoting, or relating to the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula or of Caucasian Iberia
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of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula, its inhabitants, or any of their languages
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A victim of government-sanctioned culling, trigger-happy farmers and rising road traffic, by 2002 the Iberian lynx was on the verge of extinction, with just 94 cats left in their natural habitat.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
The Iberian lynx was right there and still invisible.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
In contrast, populations in the Iberian Peninsula, at the western edge of their range, may have lasted longer thanks to better-connected core areas.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
The mitochondrial DNA from the Stajnia individuals belongs to the same genetic branch found in Neanderthals from the Iberian Peninsula, south-eastern France, and the northern Caucasus.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
They were Iberian, made by the people who’d lived in Spain before the Romans.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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