Hesperian
Americanadjective
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western; occidental.
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of or relating to the Hesperides.
noun
adjective
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poetic western
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of or relating to the Hesperides
noun
Etymology
Origin of Hesperian
1540–50; < Latin Hesperi ( us ) of, toward the West (< Greek hespérios western, derivative of hésperos evening, Hesperus ) + -an
Example Sentences
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He makes wine in Napa Valley, selling small amounts of an expensive cabernet sauvignon under the Hesperian label and larger amounts of a more moderately priced cabernet under the Anatomy label.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2020
Late Noachian/Early Hesperian or younger age indicates that clay mineral formation on Mars extended beyond Noachian time.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2014
Above the clays, a little further up the mountain, the rover should find sulphate salts, which relate to the Hesperian Era - a time when Mars was still wet but beginning to dry out.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2012
But there’s a lot we don’t know about Mars’s ancient climate, so though oceans may have sloshed around at one point, it’s not clear whether large bodies of water persisted through the Hesperian.
From National Geographic
The flowers scattered on the laureate hearse of Lycidas make a brighter, more various, and withal a homelier display than ever meets the eye in the Hesperian wildernesses of Eden.
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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