Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to rain or rainy regions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to rain, or its distribution with reference to different regions; descriptive of the rainfall of different districts; pluvial; rainy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare Pertaining to
rain .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek hūetos, rain; see seuə- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Ancient Greek ὑετός (huetos, "rain").
Examples
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The amount of rain-fall, as shown by the hyetal, or rain-chart, of North
lyuds commented on the word hyetal
(adj) pertaining to rain
August 27, 2008
super-kawy commented on the word hyetal
Of or relating to rain or rainy regions.
September 23, 2009