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Mediterranean vs Adriatic - What's the difference?

mediterranean | adriatic |

Mediterranean is a see also of adriatic.

mediterranean

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.

    • Derived terms

    * familial Mediterranean fever * Mediterranean anaemia, Mediterranean anemia * Mediterranean anchovy * Mediterranean back * Mediterranean Basin * Mediterranean blue * Mediterranean climate * Mediterranean coast fever * Mediterranean cypress * Mediterranean Deep Water * Mediterranean diet * Mediterranean disease * Mediterranean disease * Mediterranean eddy * Mediterranean erythematous fever * Mediterranean exanthematous fever * Mediterranean fan palm * Mediterranean fever * Mediterranean flour moth * Mediterranean forest * Mediterranean front * Mediterranean fruit fly * Mediterranean Games * Mediterranean gecko * Mediterranean gull * Mediterranean hackberry * Mediterranean-haemoglobin E disease, Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease * Mediterraneanise, Mediterraneanize * Mediterranean house gecko * Mediterranean Irish * Mediterranean Irishman * Mediterranean lenses * Mediterranean lymphoma * Mediterranean monk seal * Mediterranean outflow * Mediterranean pine * Mediterranean race * Mediterranean recluse spider * Mediterranean region * Mediterranean Revival Style architecture * Mediterranean Sea * Mediterranean shearwater * Mediterranean snapdragon * Mediterranean spearfish * Mediterranean spotted fever * Mediterranean Squadron * Mediterranean States * Mediterranean Station * Mediterranean Theater of Operations * Mediterranean theileriosis * Mediterranean tropical cyclone * Mediterranean water * Mediterranean water shrew * Mediterranean wood * Protomediterranean

    Related terms

    * medium * middle * Middle-earth * Middle Earth * terra * Terran * terrestrial

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Mediterranean Sea.
  • The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

    • Derived terms

    * American Mediterranean * * Blue Mediterranean * Key of the Mediterranean * Red Mediterranean

    adriatic

    English

    (wikipedia Adriatic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the
  • * 1594 — , i 2
    • She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
    Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
    As are the swelling Adriatic seas:

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Adriatic Sea, an extension of the Mediterranean Sea located between Italy and the Dalmatian coast of the Balkans.
  • * 1818 —
    • Her husband sail'd upon the Adriatic ,
    And made some voyages, too, in other seas,
  • * 1909 —
    • A strange story comes from the Adriatic .
  • * 1946 — , (5 March)
    • From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic , an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

    See also

    * Aegean * Mediterranean