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Macaronesia, n. Chiefly Bot.|ˌmækərə(ʊ)ˈniːzjə, -ʒə|
[mod. L., f. Gr. µακάρων νῆσοι Islands of the Blessed (islands in the western ocean later identified with the Canaries, etc.) + -ia1, after Polynesia n., etc.]
A biogeographical region which embraces islands in the eastern North Atlantic, principally the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, and Cape Verde Islands.
1917H. B. Guppy Plants, Seeds & Currents in W. Indies & Azores xviii. 416 The parent stocks have since been driven from their European home, and the Laurel woods of Macaronesia are all that remains of a period when trees now characteristic of Asia and America formed the forests of our continent. 1947R. Good Geogr. Flowering Plants viii. 143 Erica arborea..is distributed northward from tropical Africa well into the Mediterranean region and in Macaronesia. 1973Nature 1 June 261/1 The term Macaronesia is a collective name for the Atlantic Islands including Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands which have long been recognized by plant geographers as together forming a floristic region characterized by many common elements associated with high endemism.
So Macaroˈnesian a., of or pertaining to this region.
1917H. B. Guppy Plants, Seeds & Currents in W. Indies & Azores xviii. 416 Their descendants now give character to the Laurel woods of all three Macaronesian groups. 1928Jrnl. Bot. LXVI. 223 The degree of endemism of the group with relation to the Macaronesian floral region to which the Canaries belong. 1973Nature 1 June 261/1 Some seventy-two botanists..participated and provided convincing evidence of the increasing international interest in the Macaronesian flora. 1980J. Mercer Canary Islanders 9 The archipelago [of the Canaries] has 1600–1700 species, 470 being endemic and 110 limited to the immediate Atlantic islands (Macaronesian). |