Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains between France and Spain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain.
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Examples
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The pyrenean prunella has large purple heads; the false dragonhead (_Physostegia_), pale rose-purple spikes; centranthuses, cymes of red and white; centaureas, heads of yellow, blue, and purple; pinks, divers shades of red and white; and monkshoods, hoods of blue or white; and all are very hardy, ready growers, and copious bloomers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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Humans, from early to more recent times have hunted into oblivion everything they could collectively kill and eat, turn into clothing, or mount on a wall as a symbol of conquering power, including the mammoths, the great auk, pyrenean ibex and Asian gaur as well.
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