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单词 cornubian
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Cornubianadj.

/kɔːˈnjuːbɪən/
Etymology: < medieval Latin Cornubia: see cornubianite n. and Cornish adj.2 and n.
Now rare exc. Geology.
= Cornish adj.2
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adjective] > districts of England > specific counties
Kentisha1100
Norfolk1407
Northumbrian1602
Somersetian1612
Sussexian1612
Sussexan1614
East Anglian1622
Suffolkian1622
Yorkshire1683
Cumbrian1780
Cornubian1782
broad-acred1898
1782 W. Cowper Poems I. 164 'Tis heard where England's eastern glory shines, And in the gulphs of her Cornubian mines.
1895 Wales Feb. 92/2 Can any reader of Wales indicate what we may suppose were the Cornubian writings.
1935 A. C. Baugh Hist. Eng. Lang. iv. 87 Cornwall means the ‘Cornubian Welsh’.
1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xi. 269 The basin of deposition was bounded to the west and north by the Cornubian Massif.
1978 Nature 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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