morning dew
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- noun
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- By now, the morning dew has evaporated.
- damp with morning dew
- morning dew evaporates
- morning dew on the lawn
There's a passage of Scripture in Exodus that says, and in the morning dew laid around the camp.
- There's a passage of Scripture in Exodus that says, and in the morning dew laid around the camp.
Examples
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By then, Lucy's bad leg had further stiffened from kneeling in the early-morning dew.
Fiction book (2002) -
"There is a plant in the Namibian desert that lives a thousand years on nothing but the morning dew," he says.
Academic text (2007) -
Fresh September morning dew from the outside.
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Your voice was as fresh as the morning dew till the very last, Florence.
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The earth, still moist from the morning dew, allowed us to easily pull out the small onions.
Fiction book (1993) -
Five to nine, picking corn in the morning dew at first light all the way to sorting tomatoes in the dimming dusk.
Blog text (12) -
"These shoes aren't made for water," he said, adding that morning dew and irrigation keep farm fields damp—even in the desert of the Imperial Valley where he was working.
Blog text (4) -
My boots sat outside the tent, wet from the morning dew.
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The sun rises gloriously and glistens off lush green grass still moist from the morning dew.
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The earth, still moist from the morning dew, allowed us to easily pull out the small onions.
Synonyms
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Small drops of water on grass and other cool surfaces in the morning
How Wet
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'tiny drops of moisture that form in the early morning' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dew' (water droplets on surfaces) modified by 'morning' (the early hours). This simple noun+noun combination follows transparent semantic composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase morning dew comes from the simple image of tiny dew drops forming on the grass in the morning after a cool night. That's why it means 'tiny drops of water on plants in the morning'.