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Hudsonian (iou)



Hudsonian adjective. M19.
[from Hudson Bay, from its discoverer Henry Hudson (d. 1611), English navigator: see -IAN.]
Of or pertaining to Hudson Bay in Canada and the surrounding land; esp. designating the biogeographical zone represented by the territory around the bay (north of the tree line from Labrador to Alaska).
Hudsonian curlew N. Amer. a whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus (of the N. American subspecies). Hudsonian godwit a New World godwit, Limosa haemastica, breeding in NW Canada.