Ar"gen*tine (?; in the 2d sense, commonly ?), a. 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.

Celestial Dian, goddess argentine.
Shak.

2. Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.

Ar"gen*tine, n. [Cf. F. argentin, fr. L. argentum silver.] 1. (Min.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

2. White metal coated with silver. Simmonds.

3. (Zoöl.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

4. A citizen of the Argentine Republic.

• Resembling silver.
  
  French
• feminine of argentin
  

• Argentinean, Argentinian.
  
• Argentinean, Argentinian.
  
• The Argentine, an obsolete name for Argentina.
  
  French
• Argentina
  
• (feminine of Argentin) Argentinian woman