Definition of waterspout Waterspout
wa•ter•spout
We found 8 definitions of waterspout from 5 different sources.
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What does waterspout mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: waterspouts |
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| waterspout - a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | ||
| waterspout - a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | ||
| waterspout - a heavy rain | ||
| downpour, cloudburst, deluge, torrent, pelter, soaker | ||
| rainfall, rain anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- waterspout (n.)
A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
Wikipedia 
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A waterspout is a funnel cloud over water. It is a nonsupercell tornado over water, and brings the water upward. Also, it is weaker than most of its land counterparts.
Non-tornadic.
Waterspouts that are not associated with a rotating updraft of a supercell thunderstorm, are known as "nontornadic" or "fair-weather waterspouts", and are by far the most common type.
Fair-weather waterspouts occur in coastal waters and are associated with dark, flat-bottomed, developing convective cumulus towers.
Part of speech
🔤- waterspout, noun, singular of waterspouts.
