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River

One who rives or splits.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Estuary 70% connected

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

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Rapid 70% connected

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

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Waterfall 70% connected

A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

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Aquifer noun · 86% connection

underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc

Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.
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Basin noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Bayou noun · 86% connection

a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)

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Bog noun · 86% connection

wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried…

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Catchment area noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Catchment basin noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Drainage area noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Drainage basin noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Fen noun · 86% connection

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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Fenland noun · 86% connection

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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Horsepond noun · 86% connection

a pond for watering horses

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Lagoon noun · 86% connection

a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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Lagune noun · 86% connection

a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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Lake noun · 86% connection

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

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Liman noun · 86% connection

a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river

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Loch noun · 86% connection

Scottish word for a lake

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Lough noun · 86% connection

Irish word for a lake

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Marsh noun · 86% connection

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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Bivalve noun · 78% connection

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

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Caltrop noun · 78% connection

tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed

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Division noun · 78% connection

discord that splits a group

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Earthstar noun · 78% connection

A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball cont…

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Fission noun · 78% connection

a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

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Flag noun · 78% connection

Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

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Hyaluronidase noun · 78% connection

an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective ti…

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Hyazyme noun · 78% connection

an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective ti…

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Idealisation noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Idealization noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Legume noun · 78% connection

the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seed…

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Meadow noun · 78% connection

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

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