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Floridian, n. and a.|flɒˈrɪdɪən|
[f. Florida + -ian.]
A. n.
a. A Floridan Indian. Obs. exc. Hist.
b. A native or inhabitant of Florida.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or associated with Florida.
1589Hakluyt Princ. Navig. 541 The Floridians haue pieces of Unicornes hornes, which they were about their necks. 1777in C. F. Jenkins B. Gwinnett (1926) 218 The inroads & depradations of the Floridians. 1819Western Rev. I. 307 In the basin of the St. Lawrence or even in the Floridian waters, a total difference of [fish] inhabitants may be detected. 1827J. L. Williams View W. Florida 26 The barking..of a congregation of half starved whelps, is music to the ear of a native Floridian. 1859D. G. Brinton (title) Notes on the Floridian peninsula, its literary history, Indian tribes and antiquities. 1945W. L. McAtee John & Joe 14 There are..no fewer than 10 species and sub-species of birds in the Floridian region. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 102 The whole of the Floridian Peninsula..is now covered with a considerable thickness of Tertiary sediments. |