megamonsoon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely intense and widespread monsoon.
Example Sentences
- "First, the supercontinent Pangea led to a broad land-monsoon area (i.e., megamonsoon), but with modest monsoonal precipitation. Later, highly fragmented continents in the Cretaceous caused a much smaller land-monsoon area, but with much heavier monsoon precipitation."
- "During the period in which it lived approximately 247 to 231 million years ago, it was exposed to devastating equatorial heat and megamonsoons."