DRY WASH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

dry wash; wash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("dry wash" is a kind of...):

creek bed; streambed (a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream)

Domain region:

West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)

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