Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Slavs, their language, literature, history, etc.; Slavic.
  • Of or pertaining to Slavonia.
  • noun A Slav person or language. An inhabitant of Slavonia, a district east of Croatia, with which it forms a crownland in the Hungarian or Transleithan division of the Austrian empire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav.

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  • Specifically the Exe Estuary Special Protected Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site supports over 20,000 wildfowl in the winter months, including the internationally important populations of avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla and the slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus.

    Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom 2008

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