antoecian

发音

UK /ænˈtiːʃən/

词形变化

antoecians 复数 antoecians

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person inhabiting to the point on the globe of the same longitude but the opposite latitude.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or belonging to the point on the globe of the same longitude but the opposite latitude.

    1860, Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, chapter XX: “The Winds of the Southern Hemisphere”, § 818; [T]he westerly winds which prevail on the polar side of 40° S. are stronger and more constant than their antœcian fellows of the north[.]

词源

From antoeci + -an.

来源：wiktionary