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Aleutian

American  
[uh-loo-shuhn] / əˈlu ʃən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Aleutian Islands.


noun

  1. Aleut.

  2. Aleutians. Aleutian Islands.

Aleutian British  
/ əˈluːʃən /

adjective

  1. of, denoting, or relating to the Aleutian Islands, the Aleuts, or their language

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. another word for Aleut

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Rick Shelford, the captain of the Aleutian Lady, announced in a Monday post on Facebook and Instagram that Meadows died Feb. 25.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

From there we hopscotched to Chile, up to Mexico City, and then out to Alaska’s remote Aleutian Chain, where a sturdy, generous band of believers make their living off the Bering Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Among them is Veleropilina gretchenae, a newly identified mollusk recovered from the Aleutian Trench at 6,465 meters.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

In the northern Pacific Ocean, undersea slopes leading to the Aleutian Trench are believed to teem with worms, clams, anemones, and countless microbes thriving on methane bubbling up from the sediment.

From Science Magazine • May 21, 2024

Range.—Northern hemisphere; breeds from Massachusetts north to Greenland and northwest to Aleutian Islands and Alaska; winters south to California and Virginia.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.