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Lusitanian, a. and n.|ˌl(j)uːsɪˈteɪnɪən|
[f. L. Lūsitānia (see below) + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to Lusitania; hence (chiefly poet.), of or pertaining to Portugal.
1720Swift Progr. Beauty 48 Venus..Gave Women all their hearts could wish When first she taught them where to find White Lead and Lusitanian Dish. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof i, Go fetch a pint of port:..such whose father-grape grew fat On Lusitanian summers. 1902Edin. Rev. July 88 Later geographers..confounded Odusseia in the Sierra Nevada with the Lusitanian Olysippo.
2. Biol. Of plants or animals, having their origin in south-western Europe, esp. Portugal.
1907R. F. Scharff European Animals v. 88 Almost all the members of that South-western, or Lusitanian, element in our fauna have a discontinuous range, which is a sure indication of great antiquity. 1927Peake & Fleure Hunters & Artists 38 It is a remarkable fact that the west of the Spanish peninsula and the south-west corner of Ireland share several peculiar plants and animals, such as the winter strawberry, the London pride, the great spotted slug, and a peculiar lacustrine shellfish. This so-called ‘Lusitanian’ association may be supposed to have lived on the Atlantic coast-lands of the Ice Age. 1935Discovery Nov. 318/1, I look upon it [sc. the field cricket] as clearly a member of that group which Scharff has called Lusitanian. 1970Watsonia VIII. 93 Several of the main phytogeographical elements in the British flora, including the Lusitanian, are represented in this section.
B. n. An inhabitant of Lusitania, an ancient province of Hispania, almost identical with modern Portugal; hence, a Portuguese.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 97 A certain Lusitanian, whom he took in an Island of Portugal. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 46 Some English Merchants ships (then too much abused, by the bragging Lusitanian..) helped them. 1709J. Clarke tr. Grotius' Chr. Relig. ii. xviii. (1711) 128 note, See..Freita concerning the Empire of the Lusitanians in Asia. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô 7 A Lusitanian, of gigantic height. |