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anabatic winds

anabatic winds is the plural of anabatic wind.

Meaning of anabatic wind

Noun

anabatic wind (plural anabatic winds)

  1. An upslope wind; usually applied only when the wind is blowing up a hill or mountain as a result of local surface heating and apart from the effects of the larger scale circulation; the opposite of katabatic wind. The most common type anabatic is the valley wind.

Questions about anabatic winds

What is anabatic winds the plural of?
Anabatic winds is the plural of anabatic wind.

Words near anabatic winds in the dictionary

  1. anabathrids
  2. anabathrum
  3. anabathrums
  4. anabatic
  5. anabatic wind
  6. anabatic winds
  7. anabatically
  8. anabatics
  9. Anabel
  10. anabelian
  11. anabelian geometries

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