Definition & Meaning | English word ARAUCANA

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Definitions of ARAUCANA

1. A type of poultry notable for laying blue or green eggs.

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Examples of Using ARAUCANA in a Sentence

• According to the epic poem La Araucana, the colors were derived from those from the flag flown by the Mapuche during the Arauco War.
• araucana can be found as far south as Villa Las Araucarias (latitude 38°30' S) at an altitude of 640 m asl.
• The genus is familiar to many people as the genus of the distinctive Chilean pine or monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana).
• The Spanish aviculturist Salvador Castelló, who visited Chile in 1914, saw them and named them "Gallina Araucana", as many were found among the Mapuche people of the Araucanía region of Chile, whom the Spanish called Araucanos.
• Rumpless breeds of chicken include: the Araucana or Rumpless Araucana of South America, both large fowl and bantam; the Belgian Barbu de Boitsfort, Barbu de Grubbe and Barbu d'Uccle bantams; the Japanese Uzurao, a rumpless equivalent of the Tosa-Kojidori bantam, and Ingie (large fowl) from Kagoshima Prefecture; the Rumpless Game of the United Kingdom (both large fowl and bantam), sometimes called the Manx Rumpy or Persian Rumpless; and the German Ruhlaer Zwerg-Kaulhühner or Rumpless Booted Bantam.
• Ear tufts in the Araucana breed of chicken are associated with a lethal gene: An ear tufted hen mated with an ear tufted cock produce chicks with deformed ears and mouth that die before hatching.
• The majestic conifer Araucaria araucana, or monkey-puzzle tree (known locally as pehuén), towers above the landscape.
• In 1858, Antoine de Tounens, a former lawyer in Périgueux, France, who had read the book La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, decided to go to Araucanía, inspired to become its king after reading the book.
• In 1858, Antoine de Tounens, a former avoué in Périgueux (France) had read the book of Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, and decided to go to Araucania, inspired by the book to become the King of Araucania.
• In the minds of the Chilean people La Araucana is a kind of Iliad that exalts the heroism, pride, and contempt of pain and death of the legendary Araucanian leaders and makes them national heroes today.
• While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered one of the greatest epics of the Spanish Golden Age.
• “In the southern hemisphere, successful crossdating has been achieved on alerce (Fitroya cupressoides) and pehuen (Araucaria araucana), also known as 'Chilean pine' or the 'monkey puzzle tree,' specimens in South America, kauri (Agathis australis) specimens in New Zealand, clanwilliam cedar (Widdringtonia cedarbergensis) specimens in Australia and Tasmania, and huon pine (Lagarostrobus franklinii) in Tasmania (Jacoby, 2000al; Norton, 1990).
• Cordilleran cypress is found in the evergreen mountain forests of the Andes, usually on drier sites near the temperate rainforest, in open pure woods (where it is often locally dominant on the eastern slopes of the Andes in southwestern Argentina) or in association with Araucaria araucana and Nothofagus species.
• Notable people from Perranarworthal include Charles Fox and Barclay Fox, managers of the Perran Foundry; Saint Piran or Perran after whom Perran Foundry was named; the poet Jane Crewdson, née Fox, was born here; William Jory Henwood, mining geologist was born at Perran Wharf; William Lobb (1809–1864), a plant collector was responsible for the commercial introduction to England of the "monkey puzzle" tree Araucaria araucana and the Sequoiadendron giganteum.
• It is tailed, muffed and bearded, whereas the Araucana in the United States has ear tufts and is rumpless.
• Located near the Andes, the town benefits from mountainous landscapes featuring clearwater lakes, streams and typical local vegetation, including the official provincial tree Araucaria araucana, coihue and mallín.
• They include the Manna Gum Eucalyptus viminalis, the Casuarina, Melia azedarach, the Monkey Puzzle Tree Araucaria araucana, Cedrus atlantica, Wollemia, Sequoia sempervirens, elm trees Ulmus procera, Quercus palustris, Silver Birches once very popular in Melbourne Betula pendula and others.
• That writer did not mention the primary food source of the Pehuenche: the harvest of the seeds of the monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), locally called Pehuen.
• The Rumpless Game, like all other tail-less breeds such as the Araucana and the Barbu d'Everberg, lacks the uropygium from which the tail grows.
• William Lobb (1809 – 3 May 1864) was a British plant collector, employed by Veitch Nurseries of Exeter, who was responsible for introducing to commercial growers Britain Araucaria araucana (the monkey-puzzle tree) from Chile and the massive Sequoiadendron giganteum (Wellingtonia) from North America.
• Austrolittorina araucana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.
• The loggers exploited the lush forests of monkey-puzzle (Araucaria araucana) trees, thus depriving the Pehuenche of one of their most important foods and sources of income, the pine nuts produced in abundance by the araucaria trees.

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