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Pennsylvanian   Listen
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Pennsylvanian  n.  
1.
The geological period from 280 million to 310 million years ago; it was characterized by a warm climate and abundance of swampy land.
Synonyms: Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period.
2.
A resident of the state of Pennsylvania.





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"Pennsylvanian" Quotes from Famous Books



... calculating lobbyist, and Isaac Buchanan, untiring advocate of railways, protection, and paper money, threw themselves into the campaign. Samuel Zimmermann, the best known contractor of the period, a Pennsylvanian who had come to Canada to take a Welland Canal contract, and stayed to be the power behind the scenes in the provincial legislature, was prepared to build the road. Hudson gave the scheme his approval. All to no immediate purpose. The contracts were let, ground ...
— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton
... the previous volume we have an "Extract from a Pamphlet lately published at Philadelphia intitled 'An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire Places.'" This was probably from the pen of Franklin, who expatiates as follows on the advantages derivable from these fireplaces, which are still occasionally to be met with, and known as "Franklin Stoves":—"By the Help of this saving Invention our Wood may grow as fast ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... hear of him, with myriads of his kind, banqueting among the reeds of the Delaware, and grown corpulent with good feeding. He has changed his name in traveling. Boblincoln no more, he is the reedbird now, the much-sought-for tidbit of Pennsylvanian epicures, the rival in unlucky fame of the ortolan! Wherever he goes, pop! pop! pop! every rusty firelock in the country is blazing away. He sees his companions falling by thousands around him. Does he take warning and reform? Alas! not ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey


Words linked to "Pennsylvanian" :   period, geological period, American, Carboniferous period, Pennsylvanian period, Keystone Stater, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period, carboniferous


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