steam devil

短语

词形变化

steam devils 复数

别名

steamdevil

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A spiraling wind caused by rising thermals off a warm body of water's surface that has been enveloped by a layer of very cold air, which also causes the humidity in the thermal to turn to mist, highlighting the whirl of the column. The equivalent of a dustdevil over water.

词源

From steam + devil. From being a whirlwind (“devil”) formed from mist (“steam”). Patterned after dust devil.

来源：wiktionary