Arroyo

Definitions

1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
2. A surname from Spanish.
3. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: wadi, nahal”

“Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.”

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