virga
[vur-guh]
- streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground (distinguished from praecipitatio).
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Origin of virga
1935–40; < Latin: rod, streak
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Historical Examples of virga
Mr. Mason could not agree to the motion, notwithstanding it was favorable to Virga.
In the Exeter Domesday virga not virgata is the common word.
Domesday Book and BeyondFrederic William Maitland
Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.
The Thoughts of Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal
Hence it follows that the quarter of an acre is a rood or yard or virga or virgata of land.
Domesday Book and BeyondFrederic William Maitland
In the Exchequer book an abbreviated form is used; but virga appears in i. 216 b.
Domesday Book and BeyondFrederic William Maitland
virga
- (sometimes functioning as plural) meteorol wisps of rain or snow, seen trailing from clouds, that evaporate before reaching the earth
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Word Origin for virga
C20: from Latin: streak
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virga
[vûr′gə]
- Light wisps of precipitation streaming from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground, especially when the air below is low in humidity.
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