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Definition of Rainiest

1. rainy [adj] - See also: rainy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainiest

Literary usage of Rainiest

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

1. In Darkest Africa: Or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... small bees and the beetles—The "jigger"'—Night disturbances by falling trees, Ac.—The Chimpanzee—The rainiest zone of the earth—The Ituri or Upper ..."

2. In Darkest Africa Or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... small bees and the beetles—The " jigger "—Night disturbances by falling trees, &c.—The Chimpanzee—The rainiest zone of the earth—The Ituri or Upper ..."

3. In Darkest Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... small bees and the beetles—The "jigger"—Night disturbances by falling trees, Ac.—The Chimpanzee—The rainiest zone of the earth—The Ituri or Upper ..."

4. ... The Russian River: A Characteristic Stream of the California Coast Ranges by Ruliff Stephen Holway (1917)
"1913 The rainiest March was in 1879. when 222.2 millimeters. 8.75 inches, fell, and there were ... The rainiest April was in 1880. when 205.5 millimeters. ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"... is not only the rainiest in all Africa (so far as can be affirmed in the present state of our knowledge), but the second rainiest district on the globe. ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1863)
"The wind is variable during the rainiest season, at other times easterly winds prevail. The sky was remarkable as being either very clear, with fleeting ..."

7. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"In Yokohama and Tokio the rainiest month September contrasts with January as the dryest. In the four winter months, November to February, falls only i8°/0 ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The rainiest district in all Africa is a strip of coast- land west of Mount Cameroon, where there is a mean annual rainfall of about 300 in. as compared ..."

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