Definition of Dust devil

1. Noun. A miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air.

Generic synonyms: Whirlwind

Definition of Dust devil

1. Noun. A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dust Devil

dust asthma
dust bag
dust ball
dust bin
dust bins
dust bowl
dust bunnies
dust bunny
dust cell
dust cloth
dust cloud
dust coat
dust contamination
dust corpuscles
dust cover
dust devil (current term)
dust devils
dust jacket
dust jackets
dust mice
dust mite
dust mop
dust mouse
dust off
dust sheet
dust storm
dust storms
dust up
dust wrapper

Literary usage of Dust devil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"dust devil." In the Report of the Surveyor-General of Ceylon for 1905 there is an account of an unusually good specimen of what is popularly known in the ..."

2. The History of the Boer War by Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe (1901)
"... was made up entirely of men specially THE ADVANCE OF THE "dust devil acquainted with the country, the condition of service being that each trooper ..."

3. Cassell's History of the Boer War, 1899-1902 by Richard Danes (1903)
"And as if the heat were not enough, here and there a dust devil. A dust devil is a huge column of dust hundreds of feet high, almost as thick as a ..."

4. Through the Heart of Africa by Frank Hulme Melland, Edward H. Cholmeley (1912)
"The spare fly in front of one of the tents was swept away, and while the two tents were still suffering from the attack, a dust devil came along and nearly ..."

5. Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System by National Research Council (U.S.) (2007)
"SM Metzger, "Geomorphic Tests of the Geyser and dust devil Models for Triton's ... AP Ingersoll and KA Tryka, "Triton's Plumes—The dust devil Hypothesis," ..."

6. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"A so-called dust devil or whirlwind which carries a column of fine sand up two or three hundred feet in the air will affect an instrument two miles away, ..."

7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"But no,— a dust-devil on the white road was making strenuous efforts to be born. At first, one saw only a tiny focus of whirling dust, a gyration as it were ..."

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