1
: a periodic wind especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia
2
: the season of the southwest monsoon in India and adjacent areas that is characterized by very heavy rainfall
3
: rainfall that is associated with the monsoon
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floods caused by summer monsoons
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The devices cannot function during the cloudy monsoon season, can only process a few bodies at a time, and their intense heat tends to drive away smaller scavengers like crows.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Four out of the past seven years have seen above average rainfall, which has led to blooms covering areas in the park such as Henderson Canyon and June Wash.
Last summer though, the desert didn’t experience its seasonal monsoons.
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From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop Sale Orders during a visit this week.
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Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Four out of the past seven years have seen above average rainfall, which has led to blooms covering areas in the park such as Henderson Canyon and June Wash.
Last summer though, the desert didn’t experience its seasonal monsoons.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop Sale Orders during a visit this week.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monsoon. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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monsoon
noun
mon·soon
män-ˈsün 
1
: a periodic wind in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia
2
: the rainy season that accompanies the southwest monsoon
3
: rainfall that is associated with the monsoon season
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