1. a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean; [syn: Japan current, Kuroshio current, Kuroshio]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Kuroshio 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]