"rain shadow" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 59",
          "text": "In the modern day, the Andes cast a very strong rain shadow, resulting in the extreme aridity of the Atacama Desert.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains."
      ],
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        [
          "lee",
          "lee"
        ],
        [
          "mountain",
          "mountain"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(meteorology) An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains."
      ],
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        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǔyǐng",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "雨影"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "sadekatve"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Regenschatten"
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        {
          "alt": "ういん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "uin",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "雨陰"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cień opadowy"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "rain shadow"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rain shadow"
}

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      "form": "rain shadows",
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        "An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains."
      ],
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          "precipitation",
          "precipitation"
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        [
          "lee",
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          "mountain",
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        "(meteorology) An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains."
      ],
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        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "rain shadow"
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǔyǐng",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "雨影"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sadekatve"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Regenschatten"
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    {
      "alt": "ういん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "uin",
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      "word": "雨陰"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cień opadowy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rain shadow"
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