Pyrenean

A native or inhabitant of the Pyrenees.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a mountain range separating France and Spain.
    • Pierre held his berret ^([sic]) in his hand, and the boldness of the Pyrenean hunter was strangely overcome in the absence of all apparent danger: he really knew not what he did or what he said. - 1845, Selina Bunbury,...
    • During the Hundred Days he was in command of an army defending the Pyrenean frontier. - 1910, Hugh Chisholm (contributor), The Encyclopædia Britannica: Chatelet-Constantine, page 467:

Origin

From Latin Pȳrēnaeus + -an.

Forms

Pyrenaean Pyrenæan

Derived

Pyrenean chamois Pyrenean desman Pyrenean Sheepdog

Noun

  1. A native or inhabitant of the Pyrenees.

Forms

Pyreneans Pyrenaean Pyrenæan