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- not comparableOf or pertaining to the Orinoco river.
Industrial capitalism certainly turns over more calories per capita than does the economy of the Yanamamo of the Orinocan rain forest, […]
2002, Joseph Fracchia, R. C. Lewontin, “Does Culture Evolve?”, in Philip Pomper, David Gary Shaw, editors, The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 2462 more examples
Our vantage point provides incredible views of the Orinocan jungle stretching out to the horizon, a vast carpet of green life that some describe as the earths' verdant lungs.
2003, Tim O'Neill, “The Tree of Life”, in The American Alpine Journal: 2003, →ISBN, page 83These peoples, who for Chanlatte Baik and Narganes Storde were more closely related to Andean societies than to those from the Orinocan corridor, were called by them the "Huecoides."
2005, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, “The Crab-Shell Dichotomy Revisited: The Lithics Speak Out”, in Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 9
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Orinocan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Orinocan
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