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[syn: Japan current, Kuroshio current, Kuroshio]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Japan current \Japan current\
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing
the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward
past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North
Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in
allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may
ways to the Gulf Stream.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Japan current
n 1: a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the
coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean [syn: Japan
current, Kuroshio current, Kuroshio]