equatorial
Of, near, or relating to the equator.
Example
“That plant is best suited to equatorial climates.”
Other meanings
Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.
of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis
Related words
- circumequatorial
- equatorial plane
- Equatorial Guinea
- French Equatorial Africa
- amphiequatorial
- antiequatorial
- diequatorial
- equatorially
- nonequatorial
- paleoequatorial
- postequatorial
- preequatorial
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “equatorial” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.