Thesaurus:watercourse
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: any channel, natural or artificial, through which water flows edit
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River
Tributary
Smaller than river
- beck
- bourne
- brook
- brooklet
- burn
- coulee
- creek
- freshet
- headstream
- kill [⇒ thesaurus]
- rill
- rindle
- rivulet
- runnel
- spruit
- stream
- streamlet
Seasonal or intermittent
Hypernyms edit
Further reading edit
- “350. conduit” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “watercourse” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.