Definition of Andean

1. Adjective. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.

Partainyms: Andes
Derivative terms: Andes

Definition of Andean

1. a. Pertaining to the Andes.

Definition of Andean

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Andes mountains in South America. ¹

2. Noun. Someone from the Andes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Andean

Ancylus fluviatilis
Andai
Andalucia
Andalusi Arabic
Andalusia
Andalusian
Andalusian Arabic
Andalusians
Andaman Islands
Andaman Sea
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman marble
Andaman redwood
Andamanese
Andamans
Andean (current term)
Andean cat
Andean cats
Andean condor
Andean flamingo
Andean flamingos
Andean tinamou
Andean tinamous
Andeans
Andegerebinha
Andernach's ossicles
Anders' disease
Anders Celsius
Andersch's ganglion
Andersch's nerve

Literary usage of Andean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"Notes of a Journey through part of the Andean Table-land of Bolivia in 1882. ... The vast Andean table-land, situated at an average elevation of from 12000 ..."

2. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"I travelled on the western part of the Trans- Andean track from Valparaiso ... At present trains are running over the Trans-Andean road three times a week, ..."

3. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"THE Andean COUNTRIES I—COLOMBIA BY DR. FRITZ REGEL,' Professor of Geography ... The eastern border is marked by an inter-Andean depression, occupied in the ..."

4. Venezuela: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook with a Chapter on the Dutch by Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"Carache is a small village farther north and near the end of the Andean region ... ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES OF Andean STATES. The entire Andean region of the ..."

5. Human Geography by Joseph Russell Smith (1922)
"THE Andean REGIONS 839. A mountain world in three parts.— The extreme northern end of South America is farther from the extreme southern end than Panama is ..."

6. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"CHAPTER VI THE Andean NORTH I. THE CULTURED PEOPLES OF THE ... South of the Chibcha, in the Andean region lying between the Equator and the Tropic of ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"Calchaqui remains extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Patagonia to Peru an inter-Andean trade has existed in remote epochs showing the ..."

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