| 释义 |
Cornubian, a. Now rare exc. Geol.|kɔːˈnjuːbɪən|
[f. med.L. Cornubia: see cornubianite and Cornish a.2 (n.)]
= Cornish a.2
1782Cowper ‘Hope’ in Poems I. 164 'Tis heard where England's eastern glory shines, And in the gulphs of her Cornubian mines. 1895Wales Feb. 92/2 Can any reader of Wales indicate what we may suppose were the Cornubian writings. 1935A. C. Baugh Hist. Eng. Lang. iv. 87 Cornwall means the ‘Cornubian Welsh’. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xi. 269 The basin of deposition was bounded to the west and north by the Cornubian Massif. 1978Nature 26 Oct. 706/1 The part of the northern continental margin of the Bay of Biscay discussed here intersects and lies seawards of the rifted Mesozoic-Cainozoic basin and Cornubian granite platform of the western approaches to the English Channel. |