ARGENTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Argentine mean? 

• ARGENTINE (noun)
  The noun ARGENTINE has 1 sense:

1. any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes

  Familiarity information: ARGENTINE used as a noun is very rare.

• ARGENTINE (adjective)
  The adjective ARGENTINE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people

  Familiarity information: ARGENTINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGENTINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("argentine" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("argentine" is a member of...):

Argentina; genus Argentina (type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines)

• ARGENTINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Argentine; Argentinian

Context example:

Argentinian tango

Pertainym:

Argentina (a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America)

 Context examples 

Another heading was “Argentine,” another “Costa Rica,” and another “San Paulo,” each with pages of signs and figures after it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)