| 单词 | snow-eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmassnow-eater snow-eater n. [translating German schneefresser] Meteorology a warm wind, esp. a föhn, that causes rapid melting of snow. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind hot gleam1601 bloom1697 snow-eater1886 1886 Science 12 Mar. 242/2 Warm west winds answering to the ‘Chinook’ winds occur as far south as southern Colorado, though I have seldom heard the name ‘Chinook’ applied to them in this region. They are here [i.e. in Colorado Springs] often called Pacific winds, also ‘snow-eaters’ and ‘zephyrs’. 1933 F. H. Cheley Camping Out 197 It was the Chinook wind... The Indians call it the ‘snow eater’. 1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 1151/2 The rapid melting of the snow caused by the chinook (‘Snow-eater’) is welcomed because it frees the higher pastures. < as lemmas |
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