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
Example Sentences
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Bauers introduced us to Promise Paen, a tough-as-nails soldier in the Republic of Aligned worlds and her fight against the Lusitanian Empire.
From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2016
We both agree with Edward Forbes in considering the Lusitanian element as the oldest section of our fauna and flora, and that it came long before the Glacial period.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
Mr. Carpenter and myself agree in so far that we are both inclined to look upon this Lusitanian flora and the accompanying fauna in Ireland as of pre-glacial origin.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
The European snakes seem to be all of eastern origin, unless Tropidonotus viperinus might be claimed as a Lusitanian form.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
This genus, therefore, forms part of a migration which I have designated as "Lusitanian" from Lusitania, the name applied by the Romans to what we now call Portugal.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
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