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WIND ROSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wind rose mean?
• WIND ROSE (noun)
The noun WIND ROSE has 1 sense:
1. weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions
Familiarity information: WIND ROSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wind rose" is a kind of...):
weather chart; weather map ((meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region)
Context examples
But, sir, as it grew dark, the wind rose: it blew yesterday evening, not as it blows now—wild and high—but 'with a sullen, moaning sound' far more eerie.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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