How To Use Hispaniola In A Sentence
-
Source: Mifter/Wikipedia See Hispaniolan moist forests, Hispaniolan pine forests, Enriquillo wetlands, and Greater Antilles mangroves
Haiti
-
Now we should point out that there's a fault, you know, the major fault that Rob was talking about earlier runs north, that's the sub - duction area, runs north of Hispaniola.
CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010
-
The inhabitants of Hispaniola call it by the name cohiba, or pete be cenuc, and the instrument by which they smoke it tabaco, and hence, say they, it derived its name.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
-
There's a power of men been killed in this Hispaniola a sight o' poor seamen dead and gone since you and me took ship to Bristol.
-
The main island of Puerto Rico is the smallest by land area and second smallest by population among the four large islands of the Greater Antilles, which also include Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica.
Puerto Rico
-
The Hispaniolan solenodon and the Hispaniolan hutia are two of the few surviving land mammals in the Caribbean Islands, and both are endangered with extinction through habitat loss and introduced mammals.
Researchers Help Save Rare Venomous Mammal From Extinction | Impact Lab
-
Hispaniola's flowers and trees, her greens, up from the Greater Antilles
Weightless
-
It is located in the subtropics on the western third of Hispaniola, the second largest island in the Caribbean, which it shares with the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic.
-
Mammals that use venom are rare - the duck-billed platypus, a few shrews and the odd solenodons of Cuba and Hispaniola.
-
But on the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola - shared today by modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic - sloths survived until about 4,400 years ago.
-
After coasting along the shores of Brazil and advancing up the River Amazon, then called Marañon, he returned by way of Hispaniola, to be driven for refuge from storm into the port of Aguada.
-
Hispaniola is part of the group of islands known as the Greater Antilles.
Haiti
-
For example, there are about 30 species of satyrid butterflies in the genus Calisto that are endemic to Hispaniola.
WN.com - Articles related to Japan, Pacific nations deny report of trading cash for whaling votes
-
The Spanish borrowed canoe from Arawak (ultimately, from Carib; in older books the lending language was called Haytian, Haitian, Hispaniola, or St. Domingo), and from Spanish it spread elsewhere.
OUPblog
-
Its congener is a report on Taino Indian beliefs, produced for Christopher Columbus by Ramón Pané, a Catalan friar on the island of Hispaniola.
-
he died in 1655 at sea between Hispaniola and Jamaica, while serving as a commissioner for Oliver Cromwell on a military expedition to retake the island of Hispaniola.
-
* (* The word Itis, for Haiti or St. Domingo (Hispaniola), is found in the Itinerarium of Bishop Geraldini (Rome 1631.) -- "Quum Colonus Itim insulam cerneret.")
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
-
Today, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico - collectively known as the Greater Antilles - are home to more than 100 Anolis species, ranging from lanky lizards that perch in bushes, to stocky, long-legged lizards that live on tree trunks, to foot-long 'giants' that roam the upper branches of trees.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
-
The Hapsburg Charles V also controlled Spain and, consequently, all shipping to and from Hispaniola, where the guaiacum tree grew.
-
Slavery and slave resistance began in Hispaniola, the name explorers gave the island that now comprises the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
-
In January 1504 half of the remaining crew mutinied and departed for Hispaniola, attempting to make the hundred-mile passage in canoes hewn from local timber.
-
The two species of solenodon were first discovered by Europeans in 1833 on the islands of Hispaniola and Cuba.
-
Hispania, which is Latin for Spain; but as Spain is called by its own people Espana, Hispaniola soon became Espanola.
Christopher Columbus
-
For example, China's Yangtze river dolphin and the solenodons of Hispaniola and Cuba, are the last surviving representatives of entire families of mammals, yet are unfamiliar to both conservationists and the public, and are frequently overlooked by current conservation initiatives.
