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Definition of Refugium
1. Noun. Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Refugium
1. a stable area during a period of continental climactic change [n -GIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refugium
Literary usage of Refugium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Selection of Legal Maxims: Classified and Illustrated by Herbert Broom (1852)
"... refugium. (5 Rep. 92.) Every man's house a hit cattle.1 In the case which is
always referred to as showing the application of the above well-known maxim ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1888)
"refugium Peccatorum. OUR Lady's chapel is ablaze with light That burns against
the close-pressed face of night; The echo of long centuries of prayer Is ..."
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