Meaning of windworn | Babel Free

Definitions

Worn or smoothed by the action of wind erosion.

Examples

“windworn rocks”

“One such rock touched by the road, consisted of porphyrite, another of volcanic tuff; the ground is hard, the gravel glassy lava, all more or less windworn. […] the plain, an extremely flat depression, a high-land desert, low, flat, levelled, windworn, weathered and disintegrating rocks, a country swept clear by innumerable storms, a dry, arid and desolate country.”

“[…] the Józefów gravels are strongly windworn, whereas the sands and gravels at Katarzynów and Działki Niesułkowskie fail to show any such characteristics. Infor- mation , concerning the oldest Würmian deposits i.e. those anterior to the Katarzynów fossil soil II , is[…]”

“The acid smoke has soured the fields, / And browned the few and windworn flowers; […]”

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