What is another word for streambed?

Pronunciation: [stɹˈiːmbɛd] (IPA)

Streambeds are important features of streams consisting of exposed riverbeds, stream channels, or channels. Synonyms for streambed include river channel, creek bed, watercourse, channel bed, and ford. Streambeds are critical for aquatic habitats, as they determine water quality, bank stability, and habitat diversity. The streambeds provide a substrate for fish and other aquatic plants and animals to attach, live and feed. The terms hydraulic channel or hydraulic gradient interchangeably substitute with a streambed, and they refer to a hydraulic system's change in water level per unit distance in a stream. Understanding these synonyms is essential to enhance the ecological integrity of aquatic environments and protect these habitats' structural and functional diversity.

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  • Forward Entailment

    • Adjective
      bed.
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Usage examples for Streambed

Holes that had been dug in the dry sand of a dry streambed the night before in the morning yielded a scant supply of muddy alkali water, which went to the horses.
"The Last of the Plainsmen"
Zane Grey
But I couldn't help wondering- Morning dawned gloomily; there was a light mist hanging over the streambed, and much of the sky was turgid with clouds.
"Attrition"
Jim Wannamaker

Famous quotes with Streambed

  • He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecroppers’s wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others. There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps.
    Ursula K. Le Guin

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