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aeolian.

Adjective
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Produced, moved, or shaped by the action of wind.

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  • aeolian sand
  • aeolian erosion

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Aeolian sand buried the lower windows of the outpost.
The cliff showed the fine grooves of aeolian erosion.

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aeolian

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Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a seasonal, material, ecological, or geographic relation; comparison requires a measurable or descriptive basis. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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