combining form of L. Eurōpæus European in Europeo-American a., pertaining jointly to Europe and America. Europeo-Asiatic a. (see quot.). Europæo-Siberian a., comprising most of Siberia and a large part of Europe.
1841. Sterling, Russia, 153. The idea of an Asiatic balance of political power, as well as a Europeo-American one [etc.].
1853. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. (1858), I. xv. 52. A Europeo-Asiatic power will probably at some time give the signal for a break-up.
c. 1860. G. Bentham, Notes on Compositæ, 542. Under the name of Europæo-Asiatic or North temperate and Mountain region.
1877. Bennett, trans. Thomé’s Struct. Bot. (1878), 438. The Europæo-Siberian Forest Region [One of Griesbach’s 24 phylogeographical regions of the earth.]
