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Definition of Austral

1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos.

2. Adjective. Of the south or coming from the south. "Sailed the austral seas"

Definition of Austral

1. a. Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.

2. a. Designating, or pert. to, a zone extending across North America between the Transition and Tropical zones, and including most of the United States and central Mexico except the mountainous parts.

Definition of Austral

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or coming from the south. ¹

2. Noun. A form of currency in Argentina. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Austral

1. a former monetary unit of Argentina [n -ES or -S]

Medical Definition of Austral

1. Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs, the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator. Origin: L. Australis, fr. Auster: cf. F. Austral. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Austral

austenitizations austenitize austenitized austenitizes austenitizing austere austerely austereness austerenesses austerer

austerest austerities austerity austinite austinites austral (current term) australes australine australite australites

australize australly australoid race australopithecine australs austrealis austrine austringer austringers austrocentric

Literary usage of Austral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"When, however, we speak in the language of the theory of magnetic fluids we shall use the words Boreal and austral. Boreal magnetism is an imaginary kind of ..."

2. Genera Plantarum Ad Exemplaria Imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus Servata Definita by Joseph Dalton Hooker, George Bentham (1865)
"... in placenta basilari erecta. Flores dense globoso-capitati.—austral. occid. 18. LEPTOSPERMUM. Stamina oo, in seriem continuam disposita. ..."

3. The Island World of the Pacific Ocean by Charles Marion Tyler, Howard & Pariser (1885)
"austral ISLES. (Henry V. Act III.} WEST by north from Pitcairn, ... The products, similar to those of the austral Isles, are altogether of the tropical kind ..."

4. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"This, the arid western division of the Upper austral life zone, ... The Lower austral /one, like the Upper austral, is divided into a humid eastern and an ..."

5. California Mammals by Frank Stephens (1906)
"Upper and Lower austral, 4. 128. Thomomys angularis. ... Thomomys angularis pascalis. FRESNO POCKET-GOPHER. Lower austral, 4. 130. ..."

6. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... primary groups—Centre of Evolution—Distribution of land and water in Secondary and Tertiary Times—The Indo- African Continent—The austral Continent—The ..."

7. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"austral Forests. 1015. The forests of the austral region show greater variations and do not form transcontinental belts because of the ..."

8. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"austral Forests. 1015. The forests of the austral region show greater variations and do not form transcontinental belts because of the barriers presented by ..."

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