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Definition of Magnons
1. magnon [n] - See also: magnon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnons
Literary usage of Magnons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The Cro-magnons.—The Cro-magnons were essentially hunters, living on the flesh
of wild beasts, including the mammoth, an extinct rhinoceros ..."
2. Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1915)
"There is evidence of various kinds that the Cr6-magnons arrived in western Europe,
bringing in their Aurignacian industry, while the Neanderthals were still ..."
3. A New Dimension of Time by Marc van der Erve (2007)
"Cro-magnons. Later on, findings in South Africa and Latin America showed
that 'Cro-magnons' had reached other parts of the world as well. ..."
4. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"There is little doubt that the Cro-magnons originally developed in Asia and ...
There is nothing whatever of the Negroid in the Cro-magnons and they are not ..."
5. Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature by William Fielding Ogburn (1922)
"The Cro-magnons resembled modern man, especially the American Indian, quite
closely, particularly in the facial formations. They were taller than modern man ..."
6. World-power and Evolution by Ellsworth. Huntington (1919)
"The civilization, such as it was, of the time of the Cro-magnons "was very widely
extended. This marks an important social characteristic, namely, ..."
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