meridional

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Borrowed from Middle French meridional, from Latin merīdiōnālis, from merīdiēs (“noon; south”).

En la parte meridional del Brasil se extraen el hierro y el carbón. — A First Spanish Reader, Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by day. — Ulysses, James Joyce
His naturally dark complexion had assumed a still further shade of brown from the habit the unfortunate man had acquired of stationing himself from morning till eve at the threshold of his door, on the lookout for guests who seldom came, yet there he stood, day after day, exposed to the meridional rays of a burning sun, with no other protection for his head than a red handkerchief twisted around it, after the manner of the Spanish muleteers. — The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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