English

Adjective

antoecian ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or belonging to the point on the globe of the same longitude but the opposite latitude.
   • 1860, Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, chapter XX: “The Winds of the Southern Hemisphere”, § 818;

     [T]he westerly winds which prevail on the polar side of 40° S. are stronger and more constant than their antœcian fellows of the north[.]

References

• “antœcian, a. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)