• Orinocan

    Origin

    Orinoco + -an

    Full definition of Orinocan

    Adjective

    Orinocan

    1. Of or pertaining to the Orinoco river.
      • 2002, Joseph Fracchia and R. C. Lewontin, "Does Culture Evolve?", in The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory (eds. Philip Pomper & David Gary Shaw), Rowman & Littlefield (2002), ISBN 0742521605, 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", The American Alpine Journal: 2003, ISBN 0930410939, 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 (2005), ISBN 0817314717, 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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