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transantarctic

transantarctic adjective: across or spanning the Antarctic (the continent of Antarctica and the sea ice of the Southern Ocean that meets its shores).

Adjective

transantarctic (not comparable)

  1. Across or spanning the Antarctic (the continent of Antarctica and the sea ice of the Southern Ocean that meets its shores).
    • a transantarctic trek

Origin of transantarctic

trans- + Antarctic

Questions about transantarctic

What does transantarctic mean?
Transantarctic means across or spanning the Antarctic (the continent of Antarctica and the sea ice of the Southern Ocean that meets its shores).
What part of speech is transantarctic?
Transantarctic is an adjective.

Words near transantarctic in the dictionary

  1. transannulated
  2. transannulation
  3. transannulations
  4. transantagonism
  5. transantagonistic
  6. transantarctic
  7. Transantarctics
  8. transantral
  9. transaortic
  10. transaortically
  11. transapical

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