humboldt current

1. 1.

   a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west

   SynonymsPeruvian current

   Broaderocean current

Questions about humboldt current

What does humboldt current mean?

humboldt current means "a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west".

What is another word for humboldt current?

Close synonyms include Peruvian current. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humboldt current a common word?

humboldt current is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.