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Bolivian, a. and n.|bəˈlɪvɪən|
[f. Bolivia, a republic in South America, founded in 1825: named after Simon Bolivar (1783–1830), South American soldier and statesman.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Bolivia.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Bolivia.
1835Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. V. 71 The great emporium of the foreign trade to the Bolivian provinces. 1854L. H. de Bonelli Trav. Bolivia I. ii. 49 On the following day the two Bolivians started. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 16/1 It [sc. the constitution] guarantees to the Bolivians civil liberty..and equality of rights. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 28 June 456/2 The Bolivian poet Ricardo Jaimes Freyre. 1967Listener 10 Aug. 182/3 Régis Debray's..capture the following month by the Bolivian army.
▸ Bolivian haemorrhagic fever n. Med. a rare form of haemorrhagic fever occurring in rural Bolivia (chiefly in several epidemics in the 1960s), caused by an arenavirus (Machupo virus) and transmitted by contact with the rodent Calomys callosus; cf. Machupo virus at Machupo n.
1964Amer. Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 13 628/1 The etiological agent of *Bolivian hemorrhagic fever was antigenically related to the etiological agent of a similar clinical disease observed in Argentina. 1975Nature 15 May 185/1 The first task of the laboratory will be to build up a bank of diagnostic sera against the rare haemorrhagic fevers such as Bolivian and Congo haemorrhagic fevers. 1984M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 351 Bolivian haemorrhagic fever also occurs in annual, localised epidemics, mainly in the Beni region of N.E. Bolivia. 2000N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 May e29/1 He provides the additional example of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, which became epidemic when insecticides ingested by lizards ended up killing the cats (which ate the lizards) that were the only natural enemy of the mice that bore the disease. |