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
Last season, the company managed to make interesting evenings out of two rather lumbering efforts from Africa � Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Kongi's Harvest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The declaration suggested that Spinola was willing to let sink his pet idea of a "Lusitanian Federation"�a close alliance of Portugal with semi-autonomous African territories.
From Time Magazine Archive
The European species spread principally from three centres over Europe—viz., from the Lusitanian, Alpine, and the Balkan centres.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
It is remarkable that we are apt to mistake sometimes for Lusitanian migrants species which are of Oriental origin.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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