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Orinocan

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Etymology

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From Orinoco +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Orinocan (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Orinoco river.
    • 2002, Joseph Fracchia, R. C. Lewontin, “Does Culture Evolve?”, in Philip Pomper, David Gary Shaw, editors, The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 246:
      Industrial capitalism certainly turns over more calories per capita than does the economy of the Yanamamo of the Orinocan rain forest, []
    • 2003, Tim O'Neill, “The Tree of Life”, in The American Alpine Journal: 2003, →ISBN, page 83:
      Our vantage point provides incredible views of the Orinocan jungle stretching out to the horizon, a vast carpet of green life that some describe as the earths' verdant lungs.
    • 2005, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, “The Crab-Shell Dichotomy Revisited: The Lithics Speak Out”, in Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 9:
      These peoples, who for Chanlatte Baik and Narganes Storde were more closely related to Andean societies than to those from the Orinocan corridor, were called by them the "Huecoides."

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