[
US
/jʊˈɹeɪʒɪn/
]
NOUN
- a person of mixed European and Asian descent
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia
His mother was Eurasian, and his father Chinese
the Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world
How To Use Eurasian In A Sentence
- The Eurasian and Laurentide Ice Sheets were responsible for most of the glacio-eustatic decrease in sea level (about 120 m) during the LGM. The pattern of postglacial isostatic rebound suggests that the ice was thickest over Hudson Bay. Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP
- The status of many Eurasian species of Late Devonian cyrtospiriferid brachiopods require careful restudy to properly assess their generic status and assignment to morphologic/phylogenetic groups of Cyrtospirifer outlined below.
- Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine.
- Springtails (Collembola) of Eurasian polar deserts. Arctic environments north of the treeline
- The breed is almost directly descended from the Eurasian wild boar.
- The word "nuthatch" is derived from the fondness of the Eurasian species for hazel nuts. The Annotated "Eyes of the World"
- Any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Leonurus, especially L. cardiaca, a weed having clusters of small purple or pink flowers and spine-tipped calyx lobes.
- Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits.
- The Golden Circle is located in southwest Iceland and incorporates three main sights: Thingvellir National Park, a site of spectacular natural beauty where Iceland's ancient parliament convened and where the American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet; the high-temperature geothermal area that most people know as Geysir, on account of its best-known hot spring, from which the word "geyser" derives; and the beautiful Gullfoss waterfall. Alda Sigmundsdottir: The Magic of Iceland's Golden Circle
- The representational strategies this body of fiction deploys in depicting Eurasians can be seen as a refusal to allow the history of the Anglo-Indian community into the official colonial narrative.