Taurida

Taurida

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Taurididae – certain acoels..

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːɹɪdə/

Taurida

1. Alternative form of Taurica: (historical) An ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 36:

     He told her that in his childhood he had been a simple shepherd in the Taurida, pasturing other people's sheep and calves.