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medicanes

medicanes is the plural of medicane.

Meaning of medicane

Noun

medicane (plural medicanes)

  1. (informal) A hurricane-like storm that forms in the Mediterranean Sea.
    • Mediterranean tropical-like storms (the “medicane” term has been proposed for these storms) evolve under significantly different environmental conditions compared with the tropical ones.[2007 January 15, L. Fita, “Analysis of the environments of seven Mediterranean tropical-like storms using an axisymmetric, nonhydrostatic, cloud resolving model”, in Natural Hazards and Earth System...

Questions about medicanes

What is medicanes the plural of?
Medicanes is the plural of medicane.

Words near medicanes in the dictionary

  1. medicamentations
  2. medicamentous
  3. medicamentously
  4. medicaments
  5. medicane
  6. medicanes
  7. medicant
  8. medicants
  9. medicare
  10. medicarpin
  11. medicaster

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