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antoecian

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Etymology

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From antoeci +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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antoecian (not comparable)

  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[.]

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