Madrean
English
Etymology
Spanish madre + -an
Named for the Sierra Madre Occidental
Adjective
Madrean (not comparable)
- (biogeography) Pertaining to the Sierra Madre Occidental
- 1995, Peter Warshall, “The Madrean Sky Island Archipelago: A Planetary Overview”, in Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, General Technical Report RM, page 6:
- He defined the Madrean archipelago as those island mountains with a pine-oak woodland.