Usually means: Area sheltered, receives little rainfall.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word rain shadow:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. rain shadow: Merriam-Webster
  2. rain shadow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rain shadow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rain shadow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rain shadow: Vocabulary.com
  6. rain shadow: Wiktionary
  7. rain shadow: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. rain shadow: Dictionary.com
  9. Rain Shadow (TV series), Rain Shadow, Rain shadow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. rain shadow: Rhymezone
  11. rain shadow: FreeDictionary.org
  12. rain shadow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. rain shadow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rain shadow: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  2. rain shadow: Natural History Terms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rain shadow)

noun:  (meteorology) An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains, caused by the prior release of moisture on the windward side.

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