Reference meaning
Ross
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Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
Related source terms
john rosssir john ross
Other meanings
2. noun
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
3. noun
British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
4. noun
a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977)
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This definition is reproduced from Princeton WordNet 3.0, sense 11271349-n, under the WordNet 3.0 License. It has not yet received VocabularyBase editorial review. Read the source and license details.