peruvian current

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsHumboldt current

   Broaderocean current

Questions about peruvian current

What does peruvian current mean?

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

What is another word for peruvian current?

Close synonyms include Humboldt 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 peruvian current a common word?

peruvian 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.