HIMALAYAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Himalayan mean? 

• HIMALAYAN (adjective)
  The adjective HIMALAYAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the Himalayas

  Familiarity information: HIMALAYAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIMALAYAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Himalayas

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Himalayan peaks

Pertainym:

Himalayas (a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain)

Derivation:

Himalayas (a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain)

 Context examples 

"This parlour is not his sphere," I reflected: the Himalayan ridge or Caffre bush, even the plague-cursed Guinea Coast swamp would suit him better.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Most of the Himalayan glaciers could disappear faster than those elsewhere in the world.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

EXAMPLE(S): Holstein, Angora, Himalayan cat, Labrador Retriever

(Animal Breed Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Research conducted in the Himalayan Mountains identify a recently discovered three to five million-year-old Tibetan fox, Vulpes qiuzhudingi, as the likely ancestor of the living arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

The five-year study involving over 350 experts assesses impacts on Himalayan glaciers and potential consequences on river flows, rainfall patterns and human well-being.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)