west monsoon
west monsoon noun: in eastern Indonesia and the Moluccas, the seasonal monsoon bringing winds predominantly from the west or southwest; equivalent to the modern southwest monsoon.
Noun
west monsoon (plural west monsoons)
- In eastern Indonesia and the Moluccas, the seasonal monsoon bringing winds predominantly from the west or southwest; equivalent to the modern southwest 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 west monsoon
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Questions about west monsoon
- What does west monsoon mean?
- West monsoon means in eastern Indonesia and the Moluccas, the seasonal monsoon bringing winds predominantly from the west or southwest; equivalent to the modern southwest monsoon.
- What part of speech is west monsoon?
- West monsoon is a noun.
- What is the plural of west monsoon?
- The plural of west monsoon is west monsoons.
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