The watercourse is to the biosphere what blood circulation is to a human being.
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Watercourse
Synonyms for "watercourse" (77 found)
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Related words (38)
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5 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 27 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- течение noun (channel through which water flows)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 水路 noun (channel through which water flows)
- 水道 noun (channel through which water flows)
- 河道 noun (channel through which water flows)
Danish
1 entries- løb noun (channel through which water flows)
Dutch
2 entries- loop noun (channel through which water flows)
- waterloop noun (channel through which water flows)
Finnish
1 entries- uoma noun (channel through which water flows)
French
2 entries- cours noun (channel through which water flows)
- cours d'eau noun (channel through which water flows)
Galician
1 entries- canle noun (channel through which water flows)
Georgian
2 entries- წყალსადენი არხი noun (channel through which water flows)
- წყალსადინარი noun (channel through which water flows)
German
3 entries- Flußlauf noun (channel through which water flows)
- Lauf noun (channel through which water flows)
- Wasserlauf noun (channel through which water flows)
Hungarian
4 entries- folyás noun (channel through which water flows)
- folyómeder noun (channel through which water flows)
- folyóvíz noun (channel through which water flows)
- vízfolyás noun (channel through which water flows)
Italian
2 entries- corso noun (channel through which water flows)
- corso d'acqua noun (channel through which water flows)
Japanese
1 entries- 水路 noun (channel through which water flows)
Korean
1 entries- 수로 noun (channel through which water flows)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Waasserlaf noun (channel through which water flows)
Macedonian
3 entries- во́дотек noun (channel through which water flows)
- те́чење noun (channel through which water flows)
- тек noun (channel through which water flows)
Malayalam
1 entries- ചാൽ noun (channel through which water flows)
Manx
1 entries- stroo noun (channel through which water flows)
Middle English
1 entries- cours noun (channel through which water flows)
Māori
1 entries- koawa noun (channel through which water flows)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- løp noun (channel through which water flows)
- vannløp noun (channel through which water flows)
Polish
2 entries- bieg noun (channel through which water flows)
- koryto noun (channel through which water flows)
Portuguese
4 entries- curso noun (channel through which water flows)
- curso d'água noun (channel through which water flows)
- curso de água noun (channel through which water flows)
- igarapé noun (channel through which water flows)
Russian
1 entries- ру́сло noun (channel through which water flows)
Spanish
2 entries- corriente de agua noun (channel through which water flows)
- curso noun (channel through which water flows)
Swedish
1 entries- vattendrag noun (channel through which water flows)
Thai
1 entries- คลอง noun (channel through which water flows)
Turkish
1 entries- mecra noun (channel through which water flows)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The Grand Canal is Venice's main watercourse.
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It is a wide watercourse which, after rain, stretches out unrestrained at many places in its course into a series of shallow swamps and clay-banked waterholes.
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