A*ca"di*an (#), a.
Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.
"
Acadian farmers."
Longfellow. --
n.
A native of Acadie.
Acadian epoch Geol., an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl Zool., a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.
© Webster 1913.