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Definition of Droughts
1. drought [n] - See also: drought
Lexicographical Neighbors of Droughts
Literary usage of Droughts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Civilization, Productive Industry by Ezra Champion Seaman (1868)
"The extreme aridity of a country, and its subjection to extreme droughts.
Large portions of Africa and Western Asia, lying between the tropics and the ..."
2. American Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Phenomena of the Weather by Adolphus Washington Greely (1888)
"droughts AND HEATED TEEMS. IT is difficult to say definitely what is a drought,
as meteorologists have not agreed upon this point. ..."
3. Australia as it is: Of Facts and Features, Sketches and Incidents of by John Morison (1867)
"LIABILITY to severe droughts and to great floods are distinguishing characteristics
of Australia, and it would be in vain for the most hopeful of the ..."
4. Guide to the Transvaal by Charles J. Becker (1878)
"droughts, PLANTATIONS, &c. " One of the most important subjects that will have
... droughts have their value, inasmuch as they are said to destroy the grub, ..."
5. Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular by Henry Chamberlaine Russell (1877)
"That the proximate cause of these droughts is an unusual southerly set of the
equatorial currents is manifest, by the low barometer, high temperature, ..."
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