The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hunterian \Hun*te"ri*an\, a. Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
Wikipedia
Hunterian may refer to many things named after William Hunter (1718–1783):
- Hunterian Collection
- Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
- Hunterian Psalter
The following are named after his brother, John Hunter (1728–1793):
- Hunterian Society
- Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Hunterian Oration
Other uses include:
- Hunterian transliteration (named after William Wilson Hunter)
Usage examples of "hunterian".
The Hunterian year was about fifteen times as long as the Earth-standard year.
Some ten meters from the rifle rack-half the diameter of the spherical ship-a computer-designed hologram showed a handful of Hunterian predators stop-actioned in what looked like a good drawing of their natural habitat.
Obviously traffic in the Hunterian atmosphere was practically non-existent and a mid-air collision nothing to be feared.
For the next several days the party would presumably be out of sight of Hunterian males who might be aroused or scandalized by the fashions of the great world.
There the sun was a standard year past its closest approach to the zenith, and was now spiralling lower and ever lower in the sky, one turn with every Hunterian day, or one about every twenty standard hours.
Right now the Hunterian arctic, locked in the last half of its long night, must look as lifeless as the surface of Pluto, buried under a vast freeze-out of a substantial portion of the planet's water.
Suomi was the last to get down the ramp and crunch his new boots on Hunterian soil.
Though he was tall and heavy-shouldered his face looked no more than one Hunterian year of age, fifteen or sixteen sixtieths-of-an-old-man's-life.
Work on it had begun, he supposed, almost twenty Hunterian years ago, five times an old-man's-lifetime.
In view at the top was the head of one of the Hunterian men who had scaled the cliff.
Andreas and the other Hunterian leaders never spoke to Athena unless she asked them a direct question, which she did of course from time to time to show her nerve.
If the Hunterians knew her real status, Schoenberg supposed, they would be outraged.
The Hunterian men at table watched the show with somewhat grim expressions, or did not watch it at all.
At last the Hunterian said: "Suppose a berserker is here as you say, and the priests of Godsmountain have it.
The berserker had long ago noted that the words and actions used in these rituals tended to change but little over the standard centuries, the long Hunterian years, only gradually becoming somewhat more elaborate.