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PREVAILING WIND
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The predominant wind direction
Example:
the prevailing wind is from the southwest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("prevailing wind" is a kind of...):
air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prevailing wind"):
antitrades (wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds)
trade; trade wind (steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator)
antitrade; antitrade wind (winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics)
