Andean

Origin

Andes + -an, from Spanish, perhaps from Quechua andi ("high crest")

Full definition of Andean

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Andes mountains in South America.
• 1972, Lytle Robinson, Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man Chapter 5   Under the later Inca professional farms, the whole of the realm from the coast to the upper Amazon River became a flowering centre of plant domestication. More than half of the foods that the world eats today were developed by these Andean farmers. More kinds of food and medicinal plants were systematically cultivated here than in any other area of the world. Among them are potatoes, squash, tomatoes, beans, peanuts, peppers, papaya, cashews, pineapples, chocolate, avocadoes, mulberries, strawberries.

Synonyms

• Andine

Related terms

• Andes

Noun

1. Someone from the Andes

Anagrams

• Deanna