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pyrenees
/ˈpɪɹəˌniz/
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What does pyrenees mean?
proper noun
- The mountain range separating Spain from France, inhabited by Basques in the west, Occitans in the centre-north, Aragonese in the centre-south, and Catalans in the east.
- A wine-producing region and local government area (Shire of Pyrenees) in Victoria, Australia.
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After crossing the Pyrenees, a very short time elapsed before the Gypsy hordes had bivouacked in the principal provinces of Spain.
The case of the Anthyllis will make a "tie" with the believed case of Pyrenees plants becoming glabrous at low levels.
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The possibility of raising Catalonia in the interest of the Rey netto, who had just then crossed the Pyrenees, was much discussed there.
I hesitate to apply the epithet of Pyrenean to an insect which is much less common in the Pyrenees than in my own district.
The fourth and fifth zones, the regions of the retama and the gramina, occupy heights equal to the most inaccessible summits of the Pyrenees.