argentine Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people
Argentinian.
- Argentinian tango

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.
Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.
Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.

Cf. F. argentin, fr. L. argentum silver.

(Min.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
White metal coated with silver. Simmonds.
(Zoöl.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.
A citizen of the Argentine Republic.