Adelaideann.adj.

1839 Sydney Gaz. 15 Jan. The Adelaidians will find out this year that land incapable of rearing corn cannot be pledged for money, nor given in exchange for flour.

1872 Austral. & N.Z. Gaz. 11 July 8/1 A letter written to an Adeladean by a friend in the Northern Territory.

1912 N. Maisondeau Down Under 113 Dilapidated horse-trams or antiquated busses, which were, until quite recently,..the only public means of locomotion of the Adelaideans.

1983 Los Angeles Times 21 Aug. (Calendar section) 34/2 What Adelaidians seem to favor is a balanced diet of schmaltz and suffering.

2005 In & Around Adelaide (S. Austral. Tourism Comm.) 6/2 Social reform has always been close to the heart of Adelaideans.

1847 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 22 Dec. The ‘Adelaidean’ silk-worms, like those of Geelong, are found under the bark of the red gum tree.

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Nat. Hist. New S. Wales 49 That the zoology of the continent varies in certain portions, which can be considered as Australian sub-provinces, for which I propose the names..C, the Adelaidean, including the coast and watersheds of the colony of South Australia.]

1904 C. Hedley in Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 28 880 The marine fauna which extends from Melbourne along the south coast of Australia, and which was early elaborated in the neighbourhood of Adelaide.., I now propose to distinguish as the Adelaidean Fauna.

1923 D. Mawson in Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 47 386 This feature, taken together with the general lithological character of the beds, fixes their age as Adelaidean, formerly regarded as Lower Cambrian, but recently shown to be more probably Proterozoic.

1950 Jrnl. Paleontol. 24 425/2 The assemblage..constitutes the characteristic microfauna of the Adelaidean stage which is regarded as lower Pliocene.

2004 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 112 401 Detrital zircon ages from the Skelton Group are dominated by ca. 1300–950‐Ma ages similar to those in the Beardmore Group in East Antarctica and the Adelaidean succession of South Australia.

1848 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 11 Mar. 4/1 In obtaining late British news, our Adelaidean friends generally are more favoured than we or our Sydney and Van Diemen's Land friends are.

1883 M. J. Franc ‘Two Sides to Every Question’ vi. 67 Arthur Delta was experiencing some of the real summer heat of his adopted country, one of our Adelaidean days, with the thermometer at 108° or 110° in the shade.

1994 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 13 Feb. 111 After a leisurely Sunday tasting some of the country's finest wines and champagnes and exploring the quaint Lutheran villages in the Barossa Valley, I was rapidly developing an affection for Adelaidian hospitality and humour.

2009 M. Herbillon in S. B. Barthet Sea for Encounters 156 Conditioned by his Adelaidean ‘upbringing of straight lines’,..he stays in a boarding-house.