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rain shadows

rain shadows is the plural of rain shadow.

Meaning of rain shadow

Noun

rain shadow (plural rain shadows)

  1. An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains, caused by the prior release of moisture on the windward side.
    • As a necessary consequence of this analogous structure, we find no forests eastward of the slopes of the Rocky Mountains and the Cordilleras, or in their "rain shadow," but open steppes...1876, Oscar Peschel, The Races of Man: and Their Geographical Distribution, D. Appleton & Company, page 422

Questions about rain shadows

What is rain shadows the plural of?
Rain shadows is the plural of rain shadow.

Words near rain shadows in the dictionary

  1. rain owls
  2. rain pit
  3. rain pitchforks
  4. rain quail
  5. rain shadow
  6. rain shadows
  7. rain shower
  8. rain showers
  9. rain stair rods
  10. rain stick
  11. rain sticks

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