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mediterranean | sirocco |

As a noun sirocco is

a hot southerly to southeasterly wind on the mediterranean that originates in the sahara and adjacent north african regions.

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

    sirocco

    English

    Alternative forms

    * siroc (rare) * scirocco

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hot southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.
  • * 1814 George Gordon, Lord Byron
    • But come, the board is spread ; our silver lamp / Is trimm'd, and heeds not the sorocco's damp.
  • A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
  • * (colloquial) 2003 , , Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 113:
    • In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.

    Synonyms

    * ghibli (in Libya ) * jugo (in Croatia ) * marin (in France )

    External links

    * (wikipedia "sirocco")

    References

    * 1896 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, vol 4 p 4286