The wind-borne fungus attaches to the leaves of soybean plants and reproduces rapidly, preventing proper plant development and dramatically reduces crop yields if not treated.
Pre-Columbian pottery in the Bahamas is made of windborne deposits of African clay; orchids and other epiphytes growing in the rainforest canopy of the Amazon depend on African dust for a large share of their nutrients.
Windborne hairs released when the seed balls fall apart may cause mild nasal irritation to those with tree allergies.
Elevated sections of roads, including bridges, and sections lying in low ground or where the topography channels windborne cold air, are more prone to freezing and may need special attention.
Their pollens are very heavy and sticky and they are not windborne.
It's also possible that midwestern grazing lands are being repopulated each spring by windborne flies from the South.
Below us in all directions stretched a howling desert of white, stubbled here and there with a few stunted larches leaning at crazy angles against the windborne snow.
But to caterpillars of all kinds - from luna moths to swallowtails to monarchs - every part of the plant contains poison, including its wind-borne pollen.
Some is probably wind-borne, and much of it is carried downriver by seasonal flooding, but most if it is dumped, directly or indirectly, by the inhabitants of York.
This is rich ground, regularly fertilised by wind-borne shell sand and grazed by cattle, producing an abundance of wild flowers from spring until autumn.
Definition of windborne in US English:
windborne
adjectiveˈwɪndˌbɔrnˈwindˌbôrn
Carried by the wind.
windborne paper bags and candy wrappers caught on a fence
Example sentencesExamples
Their pollens are very heavy and sticky and they are not windborne.
Elevated sections of roads, including bridges, and sections lying in low ground or where the topography channels windborne cold air, are more prone to freezing and may need special attention.
Pre-Columbian pottery in the Bahamas is made of windborne deposits of African clay; orchids and other epiphytes growing in the rainforest canopy of the Amazon depend on African dust for a large share of their nutrients.
Below us in all directions stretched a howling desert of white, stubbled here and there with a few stunted larches leaning at crazy angles against the windborne snow.
This is rich ground, regularly fertilised by wind-borne shell sand and grazed by cattle, producing an abundance of wild flowers from spring until autumn.
Some is probably wind-borne, and much of it is carried downriver by seasonal flooding, but most if it is dumped, directly or indirectly, by the inhabitants of York.
Windborne hairs released when the seed balls fall apart may cause mild nasal irritation to those with tree allergies.
It's also possible that midwestern grazing lands are being repopulated each spring by windborne flies from the South.
But to caterpillars of all kinds - from luna moths to swallowtails to monarchs - every part of the plant contains poison, including its wind-borne pollen.
The wind-borne fungus attaches to the leaves of soybean plants and reproduces rapidly, preventing proper plant development and dramatically reduces crop yields if not treated.