north-eastern

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north-eastern (comparative more north-eastern, superlative most north-eastern)

  1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of northeastern
    • 1917 [1916 October 9], Arthur de Carle Sowerby, “On Heude's Collection of Pigs, Sika, Serows, and Gorals in the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai”, in Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, Longmans, Green, and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:
      I first examined the large series of fine skulls from the Chen-kou-ting district of North-eastern Ssuchuan, close to the border of Shensi and Hupei.