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STREAMBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streambed mean? 

STREAMBED (noun)
  The noun STREAMBED has 1 sense:

1. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a streamplay

  Familiarity information: STREAMBED used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STREAMBED (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

creek bed; streambed

Hypernyms ("streambed" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "streambed"):

dry wash; wash (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))


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