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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The amount of rain-fall, as shown by the hyetal, or rain-chart, of North
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
lyuds commented on the word hyetal
(adj) pertaining to rain
August 27, 2008
super-kawy commented on the word hyetal
Of or relating to rain or rainy regions.
September 23, 2009