| 单词 | indian ocean | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian Ocean   Indian Ocean  n.				 [compare classical Latin mare Indicum, post-classical Latin oceanus Indicus (c700 in a British source)]			 the ocean lying to the south of India, situated between Africa to the west and the East Indies and Australia to the east. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > 			[noun]		 > Indian Ocean Ethiopic Sea (also Ocean)1582 Indian Ocean1582 1582    S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum  xv. clxxvii. f. 250v/2  				Taprobana and Zeilan in the Indian Occean. 1698    J. Bilberg tr.  Voy. Late King of Sweden vii. 100  				At length returning as it were out of the East, by the Indian Ocean, and Atlantick. 1728    E. Chambers Cycl. at Ocean  				Eastern, or Indian Ocean, has its first Name from its Situation to the East; as its latter from India, the chief Country it washes. 1837    Penny Cycl. IX. 252  				The East Indies include also the islands of the Indian Ocean. 1901    R. Kipling Kim x. 239  				Mahbub nearly melted when Kim proposed a sail in a dhow across the Indian Ocean to buy Gulf Arabs. 2007    New Scientist 16 June 10/2  				Since 1997, the Indian Ocean Dipole—a cooling of the tropical eastern Indian Ocean, and a warming of the west—has also been more active. < as lemmas  | 
	
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