Usually means: Rain evaporates before hitting ground.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word virga:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. virga: Merriam-Webster
  2. virga: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. virga: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. virga: Collins English Dictionary
  5. virga: Vocabulary.com
  6. Virga, virga: Wordnik
  7. Virga, virga: Wiktionary
  8. virga: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. virga: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. virga: Dictionary.com
  11. Virga (disambiguation), Virga: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. virga: Rhymezone
  13. virga: FreeDictionary.org
  14. virga: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. virga: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Virga: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virga: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virga: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. virga: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virga: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See virgas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Virga)

noun:  (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
noun:  (meteorology, countable) A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
noun:  (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.
noun:  A female given name from Italian.
noun:  A surname from Italian.

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