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Definition of Eburnean
1. a. Made of or relating to ivory.
Definition of Eburnean
1. Adjective. made of ivory ¹
2. Adjective. white as ivory ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eburnean
1. like ivory [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eburnean
Literary usage of Eburnean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"E. b S., east-by-south. eburnean*, like ivory, not -ian. EC, Established Church,
Eastern - Central postal district, ..."
2. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"... 376 ; possible records of, in sandstone dykes, 665 Earth-worms, transport of
soil by, 460, 600 Earthy Waters, 472 Eatonia, 969, 986 eburnean epoch, ..."
3. Kettell, Samuel by Samuel Kettell (1829)
"Let Goree, rich with naming ore, For Brunswick gain'd the distant soil, Heroic
Keppel's acts- proclaim, And Senegal's eburnean shore ' Resound to future ..."
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