Hercynian

British  

/ hɜːˈsɪnɪən /

adjective

1. denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic

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Etymology

Origin of Hercynian

C16: from Latin Hercynia silva the Hercynian forest (i.e., the wooded mountains of central Germany, esp the Erzgebirge)

Example Sentences

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Hercynian

Their flocks and herds were permitted to graze in the pastures of the barbarians: their huntsmen penetrated, without fear or danger, into the darkest recesses of the Hercynian wood.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

Their flocks and herds were permitted to graze in the pastures of the Barbarians; their huntsmen penetrated, without fear or danger, into the darkest recesses of the Hercynian wood.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Henry Hart Milman

The above comprise all the mountain ranges in the northern hemisphere of any prominence, or which have received distinctive names, except the Hercynian Mountains, on the north-east limb, east of the walled plain Otto Struve.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

And I can so well understand the Romans, their terror of the bristling Hercynian wood.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The vast trees of the Hercynian forest, untouched for ages, and as old as the world, by their almost immortal destiny exceed common wonders.

From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus