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Amazonian

Amazonian

7 5.4
Relating to the Amazon rainforest or its people
  • adjective
  • /ˌæməˈzoʊniən/
translation icon : amazónico
  • The Amazonian rainforest is home to thousands of unique species of plants and animals.
  • Amazonian rainforest
  • Amazonian forest
  • an Amazonian tribe

She mentioned rediscover reconnecting to, to our Andean and Amazonian territories in Peru.

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Examples

  • We are near the nesting grounds of the Amazonian Wood Quail.

  • A key to understanding the volatility of the contemporary Amazonian frontier lies in the instability of resource-extractive cycles.

    Academic text (1992)
  • There is evidence of forest fires, possibly started by humans, even in wet areas of Amazonian forest.

    Academic text (1992)
  • One is doing this series of documentaries on Amazonian traditional medicine.

  • Friends of mine flying down into the South to the Amazonian rainforest can see them from their aircraft.

  • This is an Amazonian bird-eating spider.

  • The shift was successful: the Treaty of Amazon Cooperation was signed by the Amazonian countries in July 1978.

    Academic text (1992)
  • A popular tourist draw on the river, Belin is known to locals as "the Amazonian Venice."

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Towns like Xinguara perform a vital role in articulating the conflicting forces on the Amazonian frontier.

    Academic text (1990)
  • In the period of colonial conquest and later during the industrial age's boom-and-bust rubber trade, Amazonian peoples suffered huge declines.

    Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

Amazonian positive

Morphology

Amazonian = Amazon (transparent) = Amazon + ian

Direct denominal adjective formed from the place-name 'Amazon' meaning 'relating to the Amazon (river/region/forest)', which is straightforward for learners who know the place-name.

Etymology

Amazonian meaning 'relating to the Amazon region' comes from the Amazon river and rainforest in South America, which were named after the legendary Amazons, and so Amazonian now means 'from the rainforest or its people'.