Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Heteroscian

Heteroscian , noun

[Greek {not transcribed}; {not transcribed} other + {not transcribed} shadow: compare French hétéroscien.]

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).