What's the difference between amazonian and hesperian?

Amazonian


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Amazonian super heroine was dropped from the role less than two months later.
  • (2) Yet whatever Jürgen Klinsmann’s understandable wariness about Portugal as a wounded animal, the USA coach might prefer to take his chances against a less-than-100% Ronaldo in the testing, Amazonian conditions in Manaus, no matter how good he is.
  • (3) So on the menu at DOM are some weird and wonderful Amazonian foods.
  • (4) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
  • (5) Lobomycosis is a rare disease occurring with predilection in the Amazonian region.
  • (6) Simultaneously, several Amazonian politicians, among them Blairo Maggi, one of the world's leading soy producers, mounted a lobby to overthrow measures that banned banks from loaning money to fund projects in areas of illegal deforestation.
  • (7) In Amazonian Peru and Ecuador leaf decoctions of the rainforest holly Ilex guayusa with high caffeine concentrations are used as a morning stimulant.
  • (8) During his work in a jungle hospital of the Amazonian part of Peru, the author was able to study the health care delivery system in the area.
  • (9) I sympathise a little with Hunt – he was born into military aristocracy, a cousin of the Queen, went to Charterhouse, then Oxford, then into PR: trying to get him to understand the life of an overworked student nurse is like trying to get an Amazonian tree frog to understand the plot of Blade Runner.
  • (10) Also, new ecological situations must be foreseen, such as the expansion of agricultural frontier, rupture of the Amazonian barrier, etc.
  • (11) An epidemiological survey of tegumentary leishmaniasis (Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis) was carried out in three regions of Bolivia in the Andean foothill and Amazonian forest.
  • (12) (Iridaceae), collected in the Amazonian jungle and grown in Italy, were tested for biological properties.
  • (13) Insect bite … raw Amazonian ants as served at DOM.
  • (14) The area lies close to the meeting place of the Amazonian forest (the hylaea) and the cerrado (savanna) formation of Central Brazil.
  • (15) And then, back down into the flower she went with Pitbull, leaving the pitch to the Amazonian dancers, the raindrops, trees and footballs, who humbly marched off.
  • (16) We work with our partners and collaborators, like the National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru , to intervene through research, convenings and international networking opportunities, technical assistance, and communications support.
  • (17) The study, which is a summary drawing from more than 200 existing papers on Amazonian climate and forest science, is intended as a wake-up call.
  • (18) There is no price tag on that yet, but it has clear economic significance for Amazonian agricultural production, electricity generation and industry that generates over US$1 trillion a year.
  • (19) The amazonian region of Ecuador is the site of a powerful migratory influx for colonizing new lands.
  • (20) The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day,” he said in an email to staff .

Hesperian


Definition:

  • (a.) Western; being in the west; occidental.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.
  • (n.) Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scientists had largely overlooked the Hesperian Epoch as it was thought that Mars was then a frozen wasteland.
  • (2) But before the Hesperian Epoch the planet was assumed to have lost most of its atmosphere and turned cold and dry.
  • (3) No one had expected to find evidence of a warm, wet climate capable of sustaining surface water on Mars during this period of the planet's history, known as the Hesperian epoch.

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