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Webster 1913 Edition


Acadian

A-ca′di-an

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia.
“Acadian farmers.”
Longfellow.
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Noun.
A native of Acadie.
Acadian epoch
(Geol.)
,
an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See
Geology
.
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Acadian owl
(Zool.)
,
a small North American owl (
Nyctule Acadica
); the saw-whet.