rivulet
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French riveret (“little stream”) or from Italian rivoletto, from Italian rivo, from Latin rivus.
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NounEdit
rivulet (plural rivulets)
- A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
- A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
- 1945, Charles Cotton, Geomorphology: An Introduction to the Study of Landforms
- Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
- Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.
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small brook
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