| 释义 |
ˈnorthernmost, a.
[f. as prec. + -most.]
Most northern or northerly; furthest north.
1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 571 The great River Tartarus, named so from the Northernmost Nations of the Mongul Tartars. 1725― Voy. round World (1840) 106 The northernmost land of Grand Tartary. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. ii. vi. (1837) I. 392 The northernmost group of the British Islands. 1870Proctor Other Worlds iv. 93 At its northernmost end it turns sharply westward. |