a. [f. the place-name Snowdon (see def.) + -IAN.] Of or pertaining to Snowdon, a lofty mountain in North Wales; relating to, found at or near, Snowdon.
1820. Shelley, Let. Maria Gisborne, 239. The milk-white Snowdonian Antelope.
1829. H. L. Jones (title), Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains.
1855. A. Sedgwick, British Palæozoic Rocks, Introd. p. xli. note. The Snowdonian fossils were both embedded amongst, and overlaid by, contemporaneous plutonic rocks.
1897. Watts-Dunton, Aylwin, XII. iv. Those Snowdonian spirits which her music was supposed to have evoked from the mountain air.
