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Lusitanian
/ ˌluːsɪˈteɪnɪən /
adjective
- poetic.of or relating to Lusitania or Portugal
- 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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Example Sentences
The boat—this floating church of Morrissey, this Lusitanian of sadness—is sold out.
From The Daily Beast
The more western districts of this Lusitanian zone are not so disagreeable.
From Project Gutenberg
In it five elements are recognisable, of which the Lusitanian element is the oldest, and the Siberian the most recent.
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Our supposition that the Lusitanian element in the British fauna is the oldest would therefore be wrong.
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All this, however, will be more fully referred to in the seventh chapter, which deals with the Lusitanian fauna.
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Even a Lusitanian animal may have mingled with these migrants, so that all three elements may occur together in one locality.
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