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Meaning of tailwater | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi alavesi

Examples

“Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

tailwheel tailwhip Tailwind tailzie Taimali taimen

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