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fog drip
Moisture collected from fog onto leaves and branches, falling to the forest floor as secondary precipitation. In some coastal forests, fog drip delivers more water than rain. Trees are fog catchers — their surfaces condense what the air carries, and gravity does the rest.
Etymology
“Fog” of uncertain origin, possibly from Old Norse “fok” (spray, snowdrift) or back-formed from “foggy”; “drip” from Old English “dryppan,” related to “drop.”