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Definition of Dry season
1. Noun. One of the two seasons in tropical climates.
Definition of Dry season
1. Noun. Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Season
Literary usage of Dry season
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1900)
"An unusually dry season, with water " the lowest for years," gave excellent
opportunity for desirable construction of centers. A comparison of the levels of ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Warm Temperate Districts without a dry season. Climate of the temperate rain-forest.
South Japan. West Chili. New Zealand. Grassland climate of the Falkland ..."
3. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Kate Stephens (1896)
"observing the proper time ; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that
it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done ; of which in its ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"The prevailing winds are almost always from the northwest during the dry season ;
from the southwest, southeast, and south, in the wet season. PE ART. XVI. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"MONTEREY IN THE dry season. — On returning to the coast from the Colorado valley
in May, 1861, my health impaired by the tropical heat of the last two ..."
6. La Niäna and Its Impacts: Facts and Speculation by Michael H. Glantz (2002)
"Table 3-6 shows the total rainfall for the rainy season (December—April), and
the dry season (May—November) and their percentages with respect to the mean ..."
7. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1906)
"these two dates is so short that the two rainy seasons merge into one, in summer,
and there is also but one dry season, in winter. ..."
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