kuroshio

What does kuroshio mean?

kuroshio means "a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean".

How many syllables are in kuroshio?

kuroshio has 4 syllables and divides as ku-ro-shi-o under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for kuroshio?

Close synonyms include Japan current, Kuroshio 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 kuroshio a common word?

kuroshio 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kuroshio come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.