underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
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the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet; "flood control in the Missouri basin"
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A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement excep…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy la…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A pond for watering horses.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.See Lagoon.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydr…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…
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The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a ri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly calle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: entire, geographical, area, drained, river.Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
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