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  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, Patagonia or its people, language or culture.
  • noun Someone from Patagonia

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Examples

  • Safeway's new ranking is partly the result of its pledge to stop selling Chilean sea bass, also known as Patagonian toothfish, caught from the marine-rich Ross Sea in the southern Antarctic.

    Safeway scales the 'seafood scorecard' by Greenpeace 2011

  • The finest is the so-called Patagonian hare -- Dolichotis patagonica -- a beautiful animal twice as large as a hare, with ears shorter and more rounded, and legs relatively much longer.

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

  • I think it right to state to your highness, that on mentioning this circumstance to an Englishman, who had been employed in the spermaceti whale fishery, he asserted that they really were birds, called Patagonian penguins, who had often deceived others by their martial appearance.

    The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

  • I think it right to state to your highness, that on mentioning this circumstance to an Englishman, who had been employed in the spermaceti whale fishery, he asserted that they really were birds, called Patagonian penguins, who had often deceived others by their martial appearance.

    The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Before it was renamed to appear on fancy menus, it was called a Patagonian Toothfish (try ordering that in a tony restaurant).

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • Since its introduction, the species -- also known as the Patagonian toothfish -- has gone from being shunned to being welcomed at the worst's finest restaurants.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • Since its introduction, the species -- also known as the Patagonian toothfish -- has gone from being shunned to being welcomed at the worst's finest restaurants.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • Since its introduction, the species -- also known as the Patagonian toothfish -- has gone from being shunned to being welcomed at the worst's finest restaurants.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • The night before the wedding, People magazine reported, the Gores were at a dinner for 75 at the nearby Crustacean restaurant where a six-course tasting menu included Chilean sea bass - also known as Patagonian toothfish.

    Romenesko 2009

  • The two stand-outs are Chilean sea bass (also known as Patagonian toothfish), which is fished using indiscriminate long-lines that kill albatrosses and are subjected to huge amounts of illegal fishing; and orange roughy, a deep-sea fish that lives to be up to 150 years old (how do you fish that sustainably, exactly?) and is often caught by bottom trawling seamounts.

    Greenpeace UK - Comments 2009

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