Bos-pō'ri-an, a.

a. [Lat. Bosporus, Gr. Βόσπορος, lit. ox-ford, the ox’s or heifer’s ford, on account of Io’s passage here as a heifer; from βοῦς, for βοός, ox, heifer, and πόρος, ford, passage, from περάω, to pass, cross.] (Geog.) Pertaining to a strait or narrow sea between two seas or a sea and a lake, particularly to the Thracian and the Cimmerian Bosporus. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute, and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.