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").

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  • (adj) pertaining to rain

    August 27, 2008

  • Of or relating to rain or rainy regions.

    September 23, 2009