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Definition of Avernian

Avernian
Avernal A*ver"nal, Avernian A*ver"ni*an, a. Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Meaning of Avernian from wikipedia

- Avernus was an ancient name for a volcanic crater near ****ae (****a), Italy, in the region of Campania west of Naples. Part of the Phlegraean Fields of...
- Beowulf. Daniel Anlezark has argued that the p****age parti****tes in an "Avernian tradition" that describes imp****able wastelands of ancient history. Tristan...
- Chattian is coeval with regionally used stages or zones such as the upper Avernian European mammal zone (it spans the Mammal Paleogene zones 30 through 26...
- cenotes ("low places" with a connection to death, such as a graveyard), and Avernian Gates. It can also be gained by eating the corpus of a ghost, but few sin-eaters...
- Carboniferous-Permian Europe Autun (France) Munier-Chalmas & Lapparent, 1893 Avernian 29.2 23.03 ELMMZ Oligocene Europe Awamoan 20.0 17.5 age Miocene New Zealand...
- using the classical allusion of Lake Avernus to mean that Bastian, an avernian, was a demon is unclear. For Avernus, see Aeneid, book 6, cap.4; Kendal...