Azorian

/əˈzɔr.i.ən/ adjective

Definition

Relating to or characteristic of the Azores islands or their people.

Etymology

From Portuguese 'Açores' (the Azores, literally 'hawks'), named for the hawk species found there, with the English suffix '-ian' added to form the adjective.

Kelly Says

The Azores sits in the Atlantic's deep-ocean trenches and was so remote that Charles Darwin stopped there in the HMS Beagle—the only inhabited group of islands he visited where humans had arrived before any Europeans did.

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