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• dust storm

語源

From dust +‎ storm.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdʌst.stɔːm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdʌst.stɔɹm/

名詞

duststorm (plural duststorms)

1. A phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow soil particles up into a planet's atmosphere.

   Synonym: duster

   Hypernym: storm

   Near-synonyms: sandstorm (broadly synonymous), haboob

   In the 1930s, duststorms in the central U.S. were responsible for crippling damage to countless farms.

   • [1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond‎, volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:

     I saw a dust-storm at Kueichow which lasted for seven hours, burying some hovels and much agricultural country, and even producing a metamorphosis of the rocky bed of the Yangtze. Such storms have been observed as far east as Shanghai, but their occurrence at Kueichow shows that their area is not limited to the Great Plain or even to the region east of the mountain barrier between HUPEH and SZE CHUAN.]

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