Orinocan
English
Adjective
Orinocan (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Orinoco river.
- 2002, Joseph Fracchia and R. C. Lewontin, "Does Culture Evolve?", in The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory (eds. Philip Pomper & David Gary Shaw), Rowman & Littlefield (2002), →ISBN, page 246:
- Industrial capitalism certainly turns over more calories per capita than does the economy of the Yanamamo of the Orinocan rain forest, […]
- 2003, Tim O'Neill, "The Tree of Life", The American Alpine Journal: 2003, →ISBN, page 83:
- Our vantage point provides incredible views of the Orinocan jungle stretching out to the horizon, a vast carpet of green life that some describe as the earths' verdant lungs.
- 2005, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, "The Crab-Shell Dichotomy Revisited: The Lithics Speak Out", in Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, University of Alabama Press (2005), →ISBN, page 9:
- These peoples, who for Chanlatte Baik and Narganes Storde were more closely related to Andean societies than to those from the Orinocan corridor, were called by them the "Huecoides."
- 2002, Joseph Fracchia and R. C. Lewontin, "Does Culture Evolve?", in The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory (eds. Philip Pomper & David Gary Shaw), Rowman & Littlefield (2002), →ISBN, page 246:
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