Lusitanian
Britishadjective
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poetic of or relating to Lusitania or Portugal
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biology denoting flora or fauna characteristically found only in the warm, moist, west-facing coastal regions of Portugal, Spain, France, and the west and southwest coasts of Great Britain and Ireland
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The son of a Lusitanian merchant, while in Fez on a trading expedition, buys the relics of a Christian saint.
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Sweeter to Margaret than Lusitanian nectar such as Chianti yields was her drink of barley water.
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For the sake of convenience, only two of the great European centres of origin have a chapter devoted to themselves, namely, the Alpine and the Lusitanian centres.
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He had by now established his fame and was known as the Lusitanian Virgil, but presently he had a rude awakening from his dreams of love and glory.
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In all their expeditions this was professedly a principal motive of the Lusitanian monarchs, and Camo�ns understood the nature of epic poetry too well to omit it.
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