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Perioecus

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periœcusnounObsolete form of perioecus. [(obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.]
antichthonesnoun(geography) Those peoples who inhabit the antipodes, regions on opposite sides of the Earth.
antœcinounObsolete spelling of antoeci. [The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.]
anteciansnounAlternative form of antoeci. [The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.]
antichthonnoun(obsolete) A hypothetical Earth on the opposite side of the Sun.
perieciannounAlternative form of Perioecian. [A perioecus.]
oppositnounArchaic form of opposite. [Something opposite or contrary to something else.]
antisciannoun(obsolete, chiefly in the plural) One of the inhabitants of the Earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.
perioikoinounThe ancient inhabitants of Laconia who were free residents of the mountains and the beaches of Laconia.
perigeumnounArchaic form of perigee. [(astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter.]
peraeannounAlternative form of Perean. [Of or relating to Perea.]
periareonnoun(planetology) Alternative form of periareion. [The point in an elliptical orbit around Mars that is closest to Mars.]
anatopismnoun(rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
epicenenoun(biology and figuratively) An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.
paleoequatornounAlternative form of palaeoequator. [The equator as it was in geologic time.]
oekistnounAlternative form of oecist. [(Ancient Greece) A founder of a colony.]
epicœnenounObsolete spelling of epicene. [(linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).]
amphisciannounOne who lives in the tropics (and thus casts shadows northward and southward at different times of the year).
exo-oceannounAn ocean on a planet other than Earth.
aeonnounCommonwealth standard spelling of eon.

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