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WATER PARTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
Synonyms:
divide; water parting; watershed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("water parting" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water parting"):
continental divide (the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico))
Instance hyponyms:
Great Divide (that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States)
