| 单词 | pre-columbian | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspre-Columbian   pre-Columbian adj.  Brit.  , U.S.   existing or occurring in America before the arrival there of Columbus; of or designating the period before his arrival.ΚΠ 1854    National Mag. Sept. 263/1  				A collection of treatises has been compiled to discuss the original peopling of America, the pre-Columbian discoveries, the Canaanite, Phoenician, and Scythian immigrations [etc.]. 1870    Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. & Statist. Soc. 2  ii. 43  				Do the manuscripts which describe these voyages belong to the pre-Columbian age? 1929    Amer. Archaeol. 31 553  				We know sufficient to assign mound works north of the Ohio to pre-Columbian times. 1994    New Scientist 5 Mar. 52/2  				Silverman advocates the ‘s’ spelling for the Pre-Columbian culture of Nasca, and the ‘z’ for the modern town of Nazca. < as lemmas  | 
	
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