(n.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
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Eurasian
Definition:
(n.) A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
(n.) One born of European parents in Asia.
(a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) The other Eurasian Union is “imaginary”, the brainchild of Putin, first mentioned in October 2011 .
(3) Then, perhaps a couple of decades after the customs union is formed, its members consider creating a true monetary union with a common currency - the Eurasian ruble?
(4) Southern blot analysis of all populations shows that they can be grouped into three classes: a) American bisexuals; b) Eurasian bisexuals, and c) parthenogenetic organisms (all from Eurasia).
(5) Nor, not even if he succeeds in giving substance to his Eurasian imperial dream (which is not impossible) does Putin have the network of client states on his doorstep that Stalin surrounded himself with after 1945.
(6) Instead, the Ukrainian government announced that it was "renewing dialogue" with Moscow on trade and economic matters and with the Kremlin's embryonic rival to the EU, the Eurasian customs union.
(7) The endemic areas are widespread throughout the Eurasian continent and the Japanese islands.
(8) Using genomic fingerprinting by an arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction, we resolved into three groups a collection of Eurasian and North American isolates of spirochetes that are generally categorized as B. burgdorferi.
(9) But in the end the parliament in Minsk ratified the treaty on Eurasian Economic Union on 9 October, the day before its first three members – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – were due to meet.
(10) Russia's discomfiture stems in part from the blow such defections would deliver to its own pet Customs Union project, part of Putin's grandiose plan for a Eurasian union.
(11) But the first step is a customs union, and, in the case of the Eurasian Union, it had to include Ukraine, Russia's largest neighbour to the west.
(12) In recent years, Putin has been keen to push his own Eurasian Union as an alternative to the EU.
(13) In order to simulate the outcome of the P-M status of Eurasian populations of Drosophila melanogaster, the evolution of experimental mixed-strains was monitored for up to 50 generations.
(14) In this paper, the history and structure of South American, Eurasian, and African rodent faunas are described.
(15) Polyakov said organisers want to revisit the idea of Ukrainian participation, “but nobody knows when.” If the aim is truly to turn a Eurasian super league into one of the strongest in the Uefa zone, then Ukrainian participation would presumably be essential.
(16) The possibility of a change towards a P type only appeared with the introduction of the strong P strain Harwich into Eurasian strains.
(17) The Eurasian Institute refused to answer questions about its funding, but said it was being attacked because of its "activities to advance the political, economic and humanitarian links between Georgia and Russia and for making critical statements about Georgia's western ties".
(18) And now, under Putin's similarly autocratic regime, Russia plans to create, over time, a vast Eurasian Union (EAU).
(19) The shade of blue would be slightly different depending on whether the Pacific Ocean or the Eurasian land mass was facing them.
(20) In Europe, protection of the habitat of the Eurasian lynx and controls on hunting have seen its population rise fivefold since the 1960s.