Lutetian

comparative more Lutetian · superlative most Lutetian

1. Of or pertaining to ancient Lutetia.

   The activity of the Lutetian shippers and navigators covered the territory bathed by the Seine, the Marne, and the Oise, all of them quite navigable.

   2018, William Walton, Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, volume 1

2. broadlypoeticParisian.

   [...] not long before I took him to the Aerogare, he gave the last of his Lutetian homilies [...]

   1989, Richard Howard, No Traveller, page 21

3. geographyOf or pertaining to the Lutetian age.

   It is important to note that the Lutetian sediments occurring in the area under investigation were distinguished as limestone and flysch during previous studies also.

   1971, Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey

plural Lutetians

1. A native or inhabitant of Lutetia.

   It is possible that, when they left their islands, a justifiable concern for their own safety in wartime led the Lutetians to settle at the points that were least exposed to aggression.

   1964, Marcel Brion, Paris in Color, page 56

1. biologyA subdivision of the Eocene epoch.

   There are good reasons for believing that the “Paniselian” is a local shallow-water representative of the lower part of the Lutetian.

   1921, Henry Woodward, Geological Magazine, volume 58, page 198