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SIMOOM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does simoom mean?
• SIMOOM (noun)
The noun SIMOOM has 1 sense:
1. a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
Familiarity information: SIMOOM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("simoom" 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)
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