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Definition of Hyetal
1. a. Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.
Definition of Hyetal
1. Adjective. (rare) Pertaining to rain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyetal
1. pertaining to rain [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyetal
Literary usage of Hyetal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1873)
"APS. x, 368) and if analogous resemblances can be traced l«wc«n hyetal and ...
Both 'i the magnetic and in the hyetal phenomena, the greatest effects ..."
2. The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal by Medical College of Georgia (1859)
"It would appear from an inspection of the hyetal chart given in the Army
Meteorological Register, by the shading which is so graduated as to represent those ..."
3. Dictionary of Aviation by Robert Morris Pierce (1911)
"... whose radii are proportional to, or show, for a given place, the average
rainfall during the prevalence of wind from each point of the compass; a hyetal ..."
4. Erysipelas and child-bed fever by Thomas C. Minor (1874)
"hyetal INFLUENCES.—It was the intention of the writer to have noticed the influence
of the wet, as compared with the dry seasons, upon the two diseases ..."
5. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1872)
"The climate of California exhibits a remarkably wide range of hyetal conditions,
which, as yet, are very imperfectly understood. During the twenty-three ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1856)
"... give us every variety of climate that can be found in our zone. The following
statements, compiled from the hyetal or rain map of' the US ..."
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