transequatorialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

transequatorial (not comparable)

1. Across the equator.
   • 2007 September 18, Natalie Angier, “Songs and Sojourns of the Season”, New York Times:

     The birds were all down in the dumps poking and swishing for prey of their own — insects, worms, crustaceans, anything to help replenish their fat stores for the next leg of their long, possibly transequatorial flight.

語源

trans- +‎ equatorial

形容詞

trans-equatorial (not comparable)

1. On the other side of, or crossing the equator.

   Birth of Hurricane Agnes—Triggered by the Transequatorial Movement of a Mesoscale System Into a Favorable Large-Scale Environment -Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 177–179