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tropical cyclone

tropical cyclone noun: a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a circular or spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain, ranging in increasing strength from tropical depressions and tropical storm to hurricanes.

tropical cyclone: a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a...
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Noun

tropical cyclone (plural tropical cyclones)

  1. (broadly) A rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a circular or spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain, ranging in increasing strength from tropical depressions and tropical storm to hurricanes.
    1. (broadly, strictly) A typhoon; a hurricane.

tropical cyclone meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Indonesian and Vietnamese

tropical cyclone in Tamil

அயனமண்டலச் குறாவளி

tropical cyclone in Tagalog

(broad sense)
bagyo

tropical cyclone in Indonesian

(broad sense)
siklon tropis

tropical cyclone in Vietnamese

(broad sense)
xoáy thuận nhiệt đới

Forms of tropical cyclone

pluraltropical cyclones

Words formed from tropical cyclone

Questions about tropical cyclone

What does tropical cyclone mean?
Tropical cyclone means a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a circular or spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain, ranging in increasing strength from tropical depressions and tropical storm to hurricanes.
What is tropical cyclone in Tamil?
Tropical cyclone in Tamil is அயனமண்டலச் குறாவளி. See Tropical cyclone meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tropical cyclone?
Tropical cyclone is a noun.
What is the plural of tropical cyclone?
The plural of tropical cyclone is tropical cyclones.

Words near tropical cyclone in the dictionary

  1. tropical almond
  2. tropical almonds
  3. tropical arc
  4. tropical arcs
  5. tropical astrology
  6. tropical cyclone
  7. tropical cyclones
  8. tropical depression
  9. tropical depressions
  10. tropical dial
  11. tropical disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tropical cyclone (page history and authors); tropical cyclone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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