"duststorm" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdʌst.stɔːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdʌst.stɔɹm/ [General-American] Forms: duststorms [plural]
Etymology: dust + storm Etymology templates: {{compound|en|dust|storm}} dust + storm Head templates: {{en-noun}} duststorm (plural duststorms)
  1. phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere. Wikipedia link: duststorm Categories (topical): Wind Synonyms: dust storm Related terms: sand storm Translations (A storm of dust): عَاصِفَة الْغُبَار (ʕāṣifat al-ḡubār) [feminine] (Arabic), عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة (ʕāṣifa ramliyya) [feminine] (Arabic), փոշոտ փոթորիկ (pʻošot pʻotʻorik) (Armenian), пы́льная бу́ра (pýlʹnaja búra) [feminine] (Belarusian), 沙塵暴 (Chinese Mandarin), 沙尘暴 (shāchénbào) (Chinese Mandarin), 塵暴 (Chinese Mandarin), 尘暴 (chénbào) (Chinese Mandarin), støvstorm [common-gender] (Danish), stofstorm [masculine] (Dutch), polvoŝtormo (Esperanto), tolmutorm (Estonian), liivatorm (Estonian), tempête de sable [feminine] (French), Sandsturm [masculine] (German), Staubsturm [masculine] (German), अँधोड़ (andhoṛ) (Haryanvi), סופת חול (Hebrew), homokvihar (Hungarian), 砂塵嵐 (sajin arashi) (alt: さじんあらし) (Japanese), 砂嵐 (sunaarashi) (alt: すなあらし) (Japanese), шаңды дауыл (şañdy dauyl) (Kazakh), støvstorm [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), støvstorm [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), طوفانِ شِن (tufân-e šen) (Persian), burza piaskowa [feminine] (Polish), burza pyłowa [feminine] (Polish), tempestade de poeira [feminine] (Portuguese), пы́льная бу́ря (pýlʹnaja búrja) [feminine] (Russian), polvareda [feminine] (Spanish), tormenta de polvo [feminine] (Spanish), toz fırtınası (Turkish), пилова́ бу́ря (pylová búrja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.