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WINDBLOWN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does windblown mean?
• WINDBLOWN (adjective)
The adjective WINDBLOWN has 1 sense:
1. used especially of trees; growing in a shape determined by the prevailing winds
Familiarity information: WINDBLOWN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used especially of trees; growing in a shape determined by the prevailing winds
Similar:
crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)
Context examples
The team found evidence for nitrates in scooped samples of windblown sand and dust at the Rocknest site, and in samples drilled from mudstone at the John Klein and Cumberland drill sites in Yellowknife Bay.
(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)
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