aus·tral

1 [aw-struhl]

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin austrālis southern, equivalent to Aust(e)r Auster + -ālis -al1

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aus·tral

2 [ous-trahl]
noun, plural aus·tra·les [ous-trah-les] .
a monetary unit of Argentina, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the peso in 1985.

Origin:
< Spanish; see austral1

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Austral

Australian ( def 6 ).

Austral.

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austral1 (ˈɔːstrəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
of or coming from the south: austral winds
 
[C14: from Latin austrālis, from auster the south wind]

austral2 (aʊˈstrɑːl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -trales
a former monetary unit of Argentina equal to 100 centavos, replaced by the peso
 
[from Spanish; see austral1]

Austral.
 
abbreviation for
1.  Australasia
2.  Australia(n)

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austral   (ô'strəl)  Pronunciation Key 
Relating to the south or to southern regions of the globe.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
Austral.
  1. Australasia

  2. Australasian

  3. Australia

  4. Australian

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Example sentences
Not even insects stir in the heat of the austral summer.
On a sunny austral morning, wheeler surveys a stone corral filled with the
  bobbing white heads of hundreds of alpacas.
The austral winters and summers resemble one long night and one long day
  between weeks of sunrise and sunset.
We've been in an early austral summer squall for three days now, and it only
  seems to be getting worse.
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