Dinaric

American  

[dih-nar-ik] / dɪˈnær ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to northern Albania and extending across western Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.

2. (no longer in technical use) of, relating to, or characteristic of a Caucasoid subracial type with a long face and round, often flattened head, found chiefly in eastern Europe, especially in former Yugoslavia and Albania.

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Example Sentences

Brown bears: 17,000 of them, spread through Scandinavia, the Dinaric Alps, the Carpathian mountains, Bulgaria, Greece, Cantabria, the Alps.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020

The turquoise Tara River slices through these Dinaric Alps, creating Europe’s deepest canyon at some 4,260 feet, and thrilling white-water paddlers.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018

The Dinaric Alps, which held many of the events from the 1984 Winter Games, form a dramatic backdrop to a city with an abundance of ethnic and architectural diversity.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2016

The Dalmatian sliver is also split geographically, north and south, by the Dinaric Alps, which rise from the shores of the Adriatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here geographical influences—the direction of the rivers and the Dinaric ridges—combined with divergent political and economic possibilities, produced a dualism.

From The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Kerner, Robert Joseph