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wind-borne

[ wind-bawrn, -bohrn ]

adjective

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


wind-borne

adjective

  1. (esp of plant seeds or pollen) transported by wind
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wind-borne1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

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

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.

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!

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