pacific
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pacific/pəˈsɪfɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 peaceful in character or intent.
- 2 (Pacific) relating to the Pacific Ocean.
– derivatives
pacifically adverb.
pacifically adverb.
– origin C16: from Fr. pacifique or L. pacificus ‘peacemaking’, from pax, pac- ‘peace’ The Pacific Ocean takes its name from Ferdinand Magellan's description of its calm waters, reached after he rounded the tip of South America.
'pacific' also found in these Oxford entries:
amberjack
- anchoveta
- APEC
- arame
- Australasian
- Austronesian
- batfish
- bicoastal
- bikini
- breadfruit
- candlenut
- carpet shark
- chinook
- Chinook Jargon
- chum
- clam
- coho
- croton
- crown of thorns
- Date Line
- dollar
- Dover sole
- El Niño
- fale
- frogfish
- fur seal
- Gilbertese
- grass skirt
- greenling
- Haida
- halibut
- harlequin
- harp shell
- hoya
- Indo-Pacific
- kagu
- kanaka
- king crab
- Kwakiutl
- lingcod
- long pig
- Marquesan
- Melanesian
- Micronesian
- milkfish
- Moorish idol
- murrelet
- nipa
- noni
- nose flute
