Definition of windborne in English:
windborne
adjectiveˈwɪndbɔːnˈwɪndˌbɔrn
Transported by the wind.
clouds of windborne leaves or pollen
Example sentencesExamples
- The wind-borne fungus attaches to the leaves of soybean plants and reproduces rapidly, preventing proper plant development and dramatically reduces crop yields if not treated.
- Pre-Columbian pottery in the Bahamas is made of windborne deposits of African clay; orchids and other epiphytes growing in the rainforest canopy of the Amazon depend on African dust for a large share of their nutrients.
- Windborne hairs released when the seed balls fall apart may cause mild nasal irritation to those with tree allergies.
- Elevated sections of roads, including bridges, and sections lying in low ground or where the topography channels windborne cold air, are more prone to freezing and may need special attention.
- Their pollens are very heavy and sticky and they are not windborne.
- It's also possible that midwestern grazing lands are being repopulated each spring by windborne flies from the South.
- Below us in all directions stretched a howling desert of white, stubbled here and there with a few stunted larches leaning at crazy angles against the windborne snow.
- But to caterpillars of all kinds - from luna moths to swallowtails to monarchs - every part of the plant contains poison, including its wind-borne pollen.
- Some is probably wind-borne, and much of it is carried downriver by seasonal flooding, but most if it is dumped, directly or indirectly, by the inhabitants of York.
- This is rich ground, regularly fertilised by wind-borne shell sand and grazed by cattle, producing an abundance of wild flowers from spring until autumn.
Definition of windborne in US English:
windborne
adjectiveˈwɪndˌbɔrnˈwindˌbôrn
Carried by the wind.
windborne paper bags and candy wrappers caught on a fence
Example sentencesExamples
- Their pollens are very heavy and sticky and they are not windborne.
- Elevated sections of roads, including bridges, and sections lying in low ground or where the topography channels windborne cold air, are more prone to freezing and may need special attention.
- Pre-Columbian pottery in the Bahamas is made of windborne deposits of African clay; orchids and other epiphytes growing in the rainforest canopy of the Amazon depend on African dust for a large share of their nutrients.
- Below us in all directions stretched a howling desert of white, stubbled here and there with a few stunted larches leaning at crazy angles against the windborne snow.
- This is rich ground, regularly fertilised by wind-borne shell sand and grazed by cattle, producing an abundance of wild flowers from spring until autumn.
- Some is probably wind-borne, and much of it is carried downriver by seasonal flooding, but most if it is dumped, directly or indirectly, by the inhabitants of York.
- Windborne hairs released when the seed balls fall apart may cause mild nasal irritation to those with tree allergies.
- It's also possible that midwestern grazing lands are being repopulated each spring by windborne flies from the South.
- But to caterpillars of all kinds - from luna moths to swallowtails to monarchs - every part of the plant contains poison, including its wind-borne pollen.
- The wind-borne fungus attaches to the leaves of soybean plants and reproduces rapidly, preventing proper plant development and dramatically reduces crop yields if not treated.