Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural A name applied to cob-money (formless lumps of stamped bullion), from the fact that it was struck in Peru, although frequently in other colonies also.
- Of or pertaining to Peru, an ancient realm in South America, under the Incas, later a Spanish viceroyalty, and now a republic, extending from Ecuador southward to Chili.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Peru, either
- noun one of the native race under the Inca empire, or
- noun an inhabitant of Peru after the Spanish conquest. The modern Peruvians are of Spanish, native, or mixed descent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.
- adjective See Balsam of Peru, under
Balsam . - adjective the bitter bark of trees of various species of Cinchona. It acts as a powerful tonic, and is a remedy for malarial diseases. This property is due to several alkaloids, as quinine, cinchonine, etc., and their compounds; -- called also
Jesuit's bark , andcinchona . SeeCinchona .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person from
Peru or of Peruvian descent. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Peru or the Peruvian people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people
- noun a native or inhabitant of Peru
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DANZA PERU Tondero perla de chira piura Peru INCA THE PERUVIAN ENSEMBLE Danza del Peru music and dance from peru Director Guillermo Bordarampe Los Angeles, CA USA "INCA", the Peruvian
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The guanos, other than those which come from Peru, are chiefly purely phosphatic guanos, so that the term Peruvian has not unfrequently in the past been used as a generic term synonymous with the term nitrogenous, and consequently applied to all nitrogenous guanos independent of their source.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Mr. Rasmussen is erroneous in his translation of the term Peruvian into Spanish.
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My Spanish has its definite limits, but when I'm in Peru and someone greets me with "¿Como esta?" and I reply, "OK," I am immediately and unequivocally understood - and a Peruvian is every bit as likely to use the word as I am.
Linguistically, America is A-OK Jonathan Yardley 2010
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My Spanish has its definite limits, but when I'm in Peru and someone greets me with "¿Como esta?" and I reply, "OK," I am immediately and unequivocally understood - and a Peruvian is every bit as likely to use the word as I am.
Linguistically, America is A-OK Jonathan Yardley 2010
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From Peru anlgophone readers are missing the works of Joseph B. Adolph (Mañana las ratas - Tomorrow the rats for example, a classic in Peruvian sci-fi), or Juan Rivera Zaavedra (Who published very short sci-fi stories in a book called Cuentos sociales de ciencia ficción - Science fiction's social stories) just to name two.
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It's a tiny owl that lives only in Peruvian cloud forests and so little is known about it that its genus name means "strange owl".
The long-whiskered owlet, one of the world's smallest owls, was discovered in 1976 Blackie Lagoon 2007
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It's a tiny owl that lives only in Peruvian cloud forests and so little is known about it that its genus name means "strange owl".
Archive 2007-09-01 Blackie Lagoon 2007
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But the key ingredient, the one that makes it Peruvian, is our lemon.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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But the key ingredient, the one that makes it Peruvian, is our lemon.
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