Crossword clues for pyrenean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyrenean \Pyr`e*ne"an\, a. [L. Pyrenaei (sc. montes) the
Pyrenees, fr. Pyrene, Gr.? a daughter of Bebryx, beloved by
Hercules, and buried upon these mountains.]
Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains
separating France and Spain. -- n. The Pyrenees.
--Shak.
Wikipedia
The term Pyrenean refers to things of or from the Pyrenees mountain range. See:
- Pyrenees, the mountain range dividing France and Spain
- Pyrenean Shepherd or Pyrenean Mountain Dog, dog breeds sometimes shortened to Pyrenean
- Pyrenean Ibex, a recently extinct species of wild goat
Usage examples of "pyrenean".
The sole remaining state of those which the invaders, finding independent, conquered one by one, is the little Pyrenean Republic of Andorra, still enjoying privileges granted to it for its brave defence against the Moors, which made it the high-water mark of their dominion.
Aubert and Emily surveyed with delight the environs of the town, situated at the feet of the Pyrenean Alps, that rose, some in abrupt precipices, and others swelling with woods of cedar, fir, and cypress, which stretched nearly to their highest summits.
He had been so much taken up with encoding that he had not looked at a tenth part of his botany specimens nor even at all his birds and their parasites with anything like really close attention, and the thought of them brought him out of his cot at first light with that almost trembling or rather bubbling excitement he had known from very early days - his first sight of St Dabeoc's heath when he was seven, of a dell filled with Gold of Pleasure the next year, and of the Pyrenean desman (that rare ill-natured cousin to the shrew) only a few weeks after that!
When Parson Martin tried to dismiss ghouls and the like as weak superstition he set him down with the Witch of Endor and the Gadarene swine and evil spirits by the dozen out of Holy Writ - cited all sorts of classical ghosts, appealed to the unvarying tradition of all nations and ages, and gave us a circumstantial account of a Pyrenean werewolf of his acquaintance that absolutely terrified the younger mids.
Helen suspected that Maureen, standing in her furry coat like a disgruntled Pyrenean mountain dog, was no such thing.