arroyo
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 6
/əˈɹɔɪ.əʊ/
(UK)
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/əˈɹɔɪ.əʊ/ (UK) · /əˈɹɔɪ.oʊ/
Definition of arroyo
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
“Near-synonyms: wadi, nahal, wash, dry wash (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)”
“Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.”
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noun
-
A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
“Near-synonyms: wadi, nahal, wash, dry wash (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)”
“Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.”
- Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
name
- A surname from Spanish.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.
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