wind-borne

[ wind-bawrn, -bohrn ]

adjective
  1. carried by the wind, as pollen or seed.

Origin of wind-borne

1
First recorded in 1900–05

Words Nearby wind-borne

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How to use wind-borne in a sentence

  • More snow, either wind-borne or falling, had gathered upon it to a depth of twenty feet or more.

    Rescue Dog of the High Pass | James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Most of the fine prairie soils in our Western States owe not a little of their richness to wind-borne dust.

  • Every one of these can be paralleled amongst the many neat contrivances of wind-borne fruits and seeds.

    The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot
  • What can an immured anchorite know of the vast mysteries of the wind-borne spirits?

  • And just catches his shouted reply, wind-borne: For us it is always to-morrow!

    Twos and Threes | G. B. Stern

British Dictionary definitions for wind-borne

wind-borne

adjective
  1. (esp of plant seeds or pollen) transported by wind

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