Uralian

American  

[yoo-ray-lee-uhn, -rayl-yuhn] / jʊˈreɪ li ən, -ˈreɪl jən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Ural Mountains or their inhabitants.

2. Uralic.

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Other Word Forms

• non-Uralian
  noun
• trans-Uralian
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Uralian

First recorded in 1790–1800; Ural + -ian

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Uralian

Ekaterineburg is the centre of the mining district of the Uralian mountains.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Breakfast, a bath, and a change of clothes prepared me for the sights of this Uralian city.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox

Hence it seems that the Uralian quartz veins, containing gold and platinum, were not formed, or certainly not exposed to aqueous denudation, during the Permian era.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

Here is also a nugget or ingot, and here are some small pieces gathered out of certain alluvial soils in Brazil, Mexico, California, and the Uralian districts of Russia.

From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes

It has been found in other branches of the Aryan family of nations, in the Semitic, Uralian and Turanian families, among the tribes of Africa and Australia, and of the American aborigines.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan