kuro-siwo

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kuro-siwo - 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.]

  Kuro-Siwo \Ku"ro-Siwo\, n. [Jap. kuroshio; kuro black + shio
     tide.]
     See Japan Current, above.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]