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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | The detachment and transportation of soil by wind. Wind erosion is a cropland management concern in the Plains states. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Detachment, transportation and deposition of loose topsoil by wind action, especially in duststorms in arid or semiarid regions where a protective mat of vegetation is inadequate or has been removed ; Dehydratation and abrasion of the soil due to the action of winds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: WIND EROSIONSynonym: Erosion. (additional references) |
Crosswords: WIND EROSION |
| Specialty definitions using "WIND EROSION": anemoclastic ♦ pebble armor ♦ sastrugi ♦ WEQ, Wind erosion equation. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Monument showing effects of wind erosion. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Effects of wind erosion in northern Iowa show on the sandy knobs (light colored soil) that have had topsoil eroded completely by wind over the years. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Rangeland 'blow out' caused by heavy livestock travel and wind erosion. Credit: Gene Alexander. |  | A windbreak of conifer trees provides year-round protection from wind erosion for this cropland. Credit: Erwin C. Cole. |
 | A newly established windbreak will provide protection from wind erosion and habitat for wildlife. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Salt buildup from a 'saline seep' area. Saline seeps form when groundwater laden with salt percolates to the surface and then evaporates. The heavy consentrations of salt then kill grasses and expose rangeland to wind erosion. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Wind erosion adjacent to a newly plowed field in Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Field windbreaks in North Dakota protect the soil against wind erosion. Credit: Erwin Cole. |
 | Farmer signing a wind erosion agreement. He will receive twenty cents an acre for listing a certain percentage of his total acreage. Dodge City, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Leveling fields to prevent wind erosion on project near Liberal, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wind erosion | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "WIND EROSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vinderosion (aeolian erosion, deflation, wind scour), jordfygning (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | winderosie (aeolian erosion, wind scour), windcorrosie (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuulieroosio (aeolian erosion, deflation, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | érosion par le vent (wind scour), érosion éolienne (wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Winderosion (aeolian erosion, deflation, wind scour), Bodenverwehung (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αιολική αποσάθρωση (aeolian erosion, wind scour), αιολική διάβρωσις (aeolian erosion, wind scour), αιολική διάβρωση (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erosione eolica (aeolian erosion, deflation, Dust bowl, wind scour), erosione del vento (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 風蝕 , 風食 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふうしょく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indway erosionay erosão por acção do vento (aeolian erosion, wind scour), erosão eólica (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) erosión por el viento (aeolian erosion, wind scour), erosión eólica (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) vinderosion (aeolian erosion, wind scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: derision, ironside, nonwords, resinoid, woodsier. | |
-4 letters: dineros, dinners, downers, downier, dowries, endrins, enwinds, erosion, indoors, indorse, insider, inwinds, iodines, ionised, ionones, ironies, noisier, nonword, ordines, oroides, renowns, rewinds, ronions, rosined, rowdies, snowier, sordine, sordini, sordino, swooned, swooner, weirdos, winders, windier, winners, wonders, wonners, woodier, woodies. | |
-5 letters: dinero, diners, dinner, disown, donors, donsie, dories. | |
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