单词 | flandrian |
释义 | Flandrianadj.n. A. adj. a. Of or pertaining to Flanders or its inhabitants. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [adjective] > Flanders Flandrishc1405 Flemish1488 Flandrian1637 Flandrican1800 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Low Countries > [adjective] > Belgium > Flanders Flanders1400 Flandrian1637 1637 J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure ii. D2. 62 Celestina. But some one noble bloud or lusty kindred, Claps in, with his gilt coach, and Flandrian trotters, And hurries her away to be a Countesse. 1670 in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) 115 Proud France! no more thy Flandrian Conquests borst [sic]. b. Geology. Of, pertaining to, or designating the period since the retreat of the ice sheet and the rise in sea-level at the end of the last glaciation in north-western Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > quaternary > late or post-glacial postglacial1851 late glacial1873 Finiglacial1910 Laufen1927 Flandrian1934 1934 R. A. Daly Changing World of Ice Age v. 169 Table XXII..includes the Flandrian stage, named by him [sc. Dubois] to represent the time and processes involved by the melting of the last great Pleistocene ice-caps. 1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxiii. 421 The evidence of emergence during the last glaciation, followed by the great submergence, which has been called by Dubois the ‘Flandrian transgression’. 1952 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 18 109 It would be particularly useful to associate the three stages of the Flandrian transgression with mesolithic or neolithic industries. 1958 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) 100 Interglacial beach deposits..to the east of Calais, round the corner where the Flandrian plains begin. 1971 Nature 1 Jan. 43/2 The survival of the Teesdale rarities through the Flandrian period. B. n. a. An inhabitant of Flanders. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Flanders Flemingc1430 Flanderkin1694 Flandrian1886 Flem1909 1886 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 163/2 Flandrians, Flemings. b. Geology. The Flandrian period. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > quaternary > specific recent1833 Pleistocene1852 Holocene1914 Gamblian1929 Flandrian1968 1968 R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. xii. 281 Many raised bogs show the development of Sphagnum peats during the middle Flandrian, above earlier lake sediments. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.n.1637 |
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