Definition of "west-southwest" []

• The direction or point on the mariner's compass halfway between due west and southwest, or 112°30ʹ west of due north. (noun)
• To, toward, of, facing, or in the west-southwest. (adjective)
• In, from, or toward the west-southwest. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It was a steady, hard wind now, blowing west-southwest without the slightest deviation."
• "John Aren says Rodriguez gave 432 items to the store in Wayne, about 15 miles west-southwest of Detroit, less than one week after his ouster."
• "Likikili Bay, that's more like it; deep indentation, mangrove swamps, good holding in nine fathoms when white scar in bluff bears west-southwest."