Interesting things, dictionaries. Over the years I've learned a lot by subscribing to Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Day. Here's something I've just found on their website under "hurricane" (to be fair, it's one among several definitions, but this does stand alone):


Definition of hurricane for English Language Learners:

an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very strong winds that occurs especially in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean

No mention of tropical, no mention of cyclonicity, no definition of wind speed, terribly vague geographical reference, and as, when compared to extra-tropical depressions, hurricanes are relatively pretty small in area, a very misleading reference to size. Ho hum. Dictionaries are not bibles. Neither is the Bible a bible, come to think of it.