orographic.

Relating to mountains or to the effects of terrain, particularly on moving air and weather.

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Words that belong together

• orographic rain
• orographic uplift

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Orographic rain kept the windward slopes green.

Orographic uplift formed cloud along the ridge.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.