rain shadow

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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...

词形变化

rain shadows plural
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