virga

• “When used singly, the acutus, too, retained its shape fairly accurately and from its shape received the name virga (virgula).”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “There was a horizon-to-horizon rainbow to the northeast, a "sun pillar" to the northwest, and "virga" - wisps of precipitation (such as snow or ice) streaming down from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground.”

  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed

• “Most of this -- and -- and, folks, get ready -- this is a nerd alert for you -- most of this is virga, which is precipitation that's so light, it's not even reaching the surface of the Earth.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006

• “Thus even the clivis (more correctly clinis) was at an early period called virga flexa, and the torculus could be considered as a pes flexus.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “Essentially, much of the atmospheric moisture over these continental areas appears to come from rain that evaporates before it reaches the ground (it's called "virga"), as well as moisture given off by the lush tropical plant life through evapotranspiration.”

  All Today's News - Sightline Daily

• “Some of the snow you see on radar is virga - i.e. snow that is not yet reaching the ground.”

  The Washington Post: Update: Snow covering metro region

• “Saddam Hussein's-strong-man-reign had evaporated into the virga of a scraggly peon trapped in a urine ditch.”

  Barry Michael Cooper: Kenneth Coles & Grassy Knolls: The Sole Assasination of a Bush Legacy

• “And what you see moving through the D.C. area there, that's virga; it's precipitation that evaporates before it ever reaches the ground.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009

• “In fact, most of what you're seeing out in this area is what we call "virga.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009

• “Helictotrichon pubescens, Dactylis glomerata, Agropyron tianschanicum, and Poa nemoralis and the forbs Solidago virga-aurea, Mulgedium azureum, Doronicum altaicum, Senecio soongoricus, Crepis sibirica, Aegopodium alpestre, and Cerastium dahuricum.”

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