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Descriptor English: | Barbados | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Barbados
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Barbados | ||||
Descriptor French: | Barbade | ||||
Tree number(s): |
Z01.107.084.900.140 Z01.639.880.140 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001460 | ||||
Scope note: | An island in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. It is chiefly of coral formation with no good harbors and only small streams. It was probably discovered by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. The name was given by 16th-century Spanish explorers from barbados, the plural for "bearded", with reference to the beard-like leaves or trails of moss on the trees that grew there in abundance. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p116 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p49) |
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Annotation: | an island in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnologie EP épidémiologie |
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DeCS ID: | 1482 | ||||
Unique ID: | D001460 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
Date Established: | 1975/01/01 | ||||
Date of Entry: | 1974/11/11 | ||||
Revision Date: | 2012/07/03 |
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