单词 | dinaric |
释义 | Dinaricadj. Denoting a mountain range which extends in a south-easterly direction along the eastern side of the Adriatic, and a race of people inhabiting the coast of the northern Adriatic, characterized by tall stature, a very short head, dark wavy hair, and straight or aquiline nose. Hence as n., a member of this race. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec Alpine?a1475 Pyrene?a1475 Riphaean1555 Pyrenean?1556 Pyrenee1590 hercynian1598 Alpic1611 Appalachian1672 Carpathian1673 Rhipaean1703 Alleghenian1740 Altaic1762 Altaian1780 Balkan1785 Uralian1801 Lepontine1802 Altai1824 Dinaric1833 Andean1845 Alpigene1847 Lepontian1857 Uralic1861 Himalayan1866 Cordilleran1891 Andine1900 Armorican1906 Variscan1906 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 387/1 The Dinaric Alps. 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 572/1 Dinaric Alps, that branch of the Alpine system which connects the Julian Alps with the western ranges of the Balkan. 1898 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 732 The Adriatic or Dinaric race. 1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man ix. 333 Dark, brachycephalic, tall race, called Adriatic or Dinaric, because its purest representatives are met with along the coast of the Northern Adriatic and especially in Bosnia, Dalmatia, and Croatia. 1924 T.P.'s & Cassell's Weekly 13 Sept. 658/2 The pyramid-headed man from the Dinaric lands. 1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods xvi. 370 There is..no evidence for the occurrence of the Dinaric type in the neolithic period. 1939 C. S. Coon Races of Europe v. 140 This is our first meeting with the Dinaric race. 1939 C. S. Coon Races of Europe v. 140 The stature was tall, as with modern Dinarics, and the long bones slender. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xviii. 397 Farther south the backward thrusts maintain their direction and mark the beginning of the Italian ranges which pass round the head of the Adriatic into the Dinaric Alps. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1833 |
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