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SIMOOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("simoom" 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)