land breezes
land breezes is the plural of land breeze.
Meaning of land breeze
Noun
land breeze (plural land breezes)
- A breeze blowing off the land and out to sea, common at night.
- The wind continued light and variable all day, with a calm in the evening before the land breeze sprang up.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 165
- Synonyms:
- land wind
- Antonyms:
- sea breeze
Questions about land breezes
- What is land breezes the plural of?
- Land breezes is the plural of land breeze.
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