east monsoon
east monsoon noun: in eastern Indonesia and the Moluccas, the seasonal monsoon bringing winds predominantly from the east or southeast; equivalent to the modern southeast monsoon.
Noun
east monsoon (plural east monsoons)
- In eastern Indonesia and the Moluccas, the seasonal monsoon bringing winds predominantly from the east or southeast; equivalent to the modern southeast monsoon.
- It appears, however, that owing to the general direction of the island of Ceram (E.S.E. and W.N.W.), there is a heavy surf and scarcely any shelter on the south coast during the west monsoon, when alone a journey to the eastward can be safely made; while during the east monsoon, when I proposed to...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 91
Forms of east monsoon
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Questions about east monsoon
- What does east monsoon mean?
- East monsoon means in eastern Indonesia and the Moluccas, the seasonal monsoon bringing winds predominantly from the east or southeast; equivalent to the modern southeast monsoon.
- What part of speech is east monsoon?
- East monsoon is a noun.
- What is the plural of east monsoon?
- The plural of east monsoon is east monsoons.
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