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mediterranean
| mediterranean anaemia
| mediterranean anchovy
| mediterranean anemia
| mediterranean cypress
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mediterranean
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mediterranean has 1 sense
- mediterranean(n = noun.object) mediterranean sea - the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia; Array has parts: cyprus, crete, kriti, aegadean islands, aegadean isles, aegates, egadi islands, isole egadi, sardegna, sardinia, sicilia, sicily, corse, corsica, malta, abukir, abukir bay, adriatic, adriatic sea, aegean, aegean sea, gulf of antalya, gulf of sidra, ionian sea, ligurian sea, perejil, tyrrhenian sea
has particulars: mare nostrum
is a kind of sea
Derived form adjective mediterranean1
Adjective mediterranean has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa. [1913 Webster]
- Inland; remote from the ocean. [1913 Webster]"Cities, as well mediterranean as maritime." [1913 Webster]
- Of, pertaining to, or located in the Mediterranean Sea or on the adjacent lands; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage; a Mediterranean plant. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mediterranean, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a large landlocked sea bordered by S. Europe, SW Asia, and N. Africa.
2 a native of a country bordering on the Mediterranean.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of the Mediterranean or its surrounding region (Mediterranean climate; Mediterranean cookery).
2 (of a person) dark-complexioned and not tall.
--n.
1 a large landlocked sea bordered by S. Europe, SW Asia, and N. Africa.
2 a native of a country bordering on the Mediterranean.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of the Mediterranean or its surrounding region (Mediterranean climate; Mediterranean cookery).
2 (of a person) dark-complexioned and not tall.
Etymology
L mediterraneus inland f. medius middle + terra land
ROGET THESAURUS
mediterranean
Middle
N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.Interposition
N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.
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