PREVAILING WIND

I. (noun)

Meaning:

The predominant wind direction

Example:

the prevailing wind is from the southwest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("prevailing wind" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prevailing wind"):

antitrades (wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds)

trade; trade wind (steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator)

antitrade; antitrade wind (winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics)