Lusitanianadj.n.

1720 J. Swift Progr. Beauty 48 Venus..Gave Women all their hearts could wish When first she taught them where to find White Lead and Lusitanian Dish.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 182 Go fetch a pint of port:..such whose father-grape grew fat On Lusitanian summers.

1902 Edinb. Rev. July 88 Later geographers..confounded Odusseia in the Sierra Nevada with the Lusitanian Olysippo.

1907 R. F. Scharff European Animals v. 88 Almost all the members of that South-western, or Lusitanian, element in our fauna have a discontinuous range, which is a sure indication of great antiquity.

1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Hunters & Artists 38 It is a remarkable fact that the west of the Spanish peninsula and the south-west corner of Ireland share several peculiar plants and animals, such as the winter strawberry, the London pride, the great spotted slug, and a peculiar lacustrine shellfish. This so-called ‘Lusitanian’ association may be supposed to have lived on the Atlantic coast-lands of the Ice Age.

1935 Discovery Nov. 318/1 I look upon it [sc. the field cricket] as clearly a member of that group which Scharff has called Lusitanian.

1970 Watsonia 8 93 Several of the main phytogeographical elements in the British flora, including the Lusitanian, are represented in this section.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 123 A certain Lusitanian whom he took in an Island of Portugall.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 46 Some English Merchants ships (then too much abused, by the bragging Lusitanian..) helped them.

1709 J. Clarke tr. Grotius Truth Christian Relig. (1711) ii. xviii. 128 (note) See..Freita concerning the Empire of the Lusitanians in Asia.

1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 7 A Lusitanian, of gigantic height.