Definition of Spelaean

1. spelean [adj] - See also: spelean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spelaean

speir
speired
speiring
speirings
speirs
speise
speises
speiskobalt
speiss
speisses
spek
spekboom
spekbooms
speke
speks
spelaean (current term)
spelaeologist
spelaeology
speld
spelded
spelder
speldered
spelders
speldin
spelding
speldings
speldins
speldrin
speldrins
spelds

Literary usage of Spelaean

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

1. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1864)
"In all these anatomical characters in which the Lough Gur specimen differs from that of the spelaean Bear, it not only approaches, but seems identical with ..."

2. A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds by Richard. Owen (1846)
"The Hyaena is associated in the till at Walton with remains of the spelaean Bear and Tiger, the Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, and other Mammalia of the ..."

3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1869)
"Our great cave-explorer, Dr. Buckland, was the first to ascribe the spelaean remains to the fossil Tiger, without, however, giving any reasons for his ..."

4. Report and Transactions (1867)
"The remains of the Fox from the same cavern, now in the British Museum, present, however, precisely the same fossilized state as the bones of the spelaean ..."

5. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1858)
"Professor Owen, on the other hand, considers the spelaean bear to differ in species from both Ursus ferox and U. Arctos, and endorses the validity of ..."

6. Journal (1864)
"There is also another essential difference, namely, that the trochanter major of the spelaean Bear is much larger and rougher than that of the Lough Gur ..."

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