单词 | europaeo-american |
释义 | > as lemmasEuropaeo-American Forming adjectives with the sense ‘European and —’, ‘relating jointly to Europe and —’, as Europaeo-American, Europaeo-Asiatic, Europaeo-Siberian, etc.Frequently in scientific contexts, esp. in 19th cent. ΚΠ 1841 A. C. Sterling Russia 153 The idea of an Asiatic balance of political power, as well as a Europeo-American one, etc. 1853 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. xv. 52 A Europeo-Asiatic power will probably at some time give the signal for a break-up. 1856 C. Lyell Let. 1 July in C. Darwin Corr. (1990) VI. 164 Suppose A. B. C. to represent the original Europeo-African continent & B. D. to be the level of the Atlantic. c1860 G. Bentham Notes on Compositæ 542 Under the name of Europæo-Asiatic or North temperate and Mountain region. 1877 A. W. Bennett tr. O. W. Thomé Text-bk. Struct. & Physiol. Bot. viii. 438 The Europæo-Siberian Forest-Region. [One of Griesbach's 24 phytogeographical regions of the earth.] 1906 Science 30 Mar. 513/2 He divides the Palæarctic region into four subregions: Europæo-Siberian, Mediterranean, Turkestain, and Chino-Japanese. 1954 Ecology 35 160/1 The north temperate realm he divided into North American and Europæo-Asiatic regions. 1980 tr. M. Rodinson Muhammad Introd. p. xlviii There is only a negative homogeneity, expressed in the efforts to reduce Europeo-American hegemony to the point of being able to participate in it. < as lemmas |
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