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Definition of Argentine

1. Noun. Any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people. "Argentinian tango"

Definition of Argentine

1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.

2. n. A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

Definition of Argentine

1. Adjective. Argentinian, of, from, or pertaining to Argentina. ¹

2. Noun. An Argentinian. ¹

3. Proper noun. (archaic) Argentina. ¹

4. Adjective. Containing or resembling silver. ¹

5. Noun. Any osmeriform fish of the genus ''Argentina'', especially the European argentine, ''Argentina sphyraena''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Argentine

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Medical Definition of Argentine

1. 1. A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure. 2. White metal coated with silver. 3. A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina. 4. A citizen of the Argentine Republic. Origin: Cf. F. Argentin, fr. L. Argentum silver. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Argentine

argent argent- argentaffin argentaffin cell argentaffin granules argentaffinoma argental argentate argentation argentation chromatography

argentations argenteus argentian argentic argentiferous argentine (current term) argentines argentinosaur argentite argentites

argento- argentocracies argentocracy argentojarosite argentopentlandite argentophil argentophilic argentopyrite argentotennantite argentous

Literary usage of Argentine

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

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"SCIENCE IN THE argentine REPUBLIC The argentine Republic. Written in German by Richard Napp, assisted by several Fellow-writers, for the Central argentine ..."

2. Catalogby Indiana State Library by Indiana State Library (1906)
"argentine Republic written . . . for the Central argentine commission on the ... disputed by the United States of Brazil ; argentine evidence laid before ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"February, 1020) AT THE present time five localities in the argentine Republic ... These localities are listed as follows: North argentine-Bolivian region, ..."

4. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"The argentine Government Meteorology. The argentine Government have resolved to continue the station at Scotia Bay for a third year, and thus for the first ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"In fact, owing to the comparatively limited means of communication, it was formerly considered too vast for an undivided control, and the argentine part was ..."

6. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"Of all the people inhabiting the argentine Republic virtually one fourth live in the capital ... The two principal crops of the argentine, cattle and wheat, ..."

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