What is another word for arroyo?

Pronunciation: [aɹˈɔ͡ɪə͡ʊ] (IPA)

Arroyo is a word borrowed from the Spanish language to describe a dry creek or a seasonal stream. Synonyms for arroyo include gully, ravine, coulee or wash, which are all natural channels for water. Wadi, arroyo seco, and barranca are other words sourced from different languages that are used to describe similar features. Arroyos are often found in arid regions where flash floods can occur, and they can be dangerous to hikers and motorists during rainy seasons. People use the term arroyo interchangeably with drainages, creeks, and streams, but arroyos represent a unique geographical feature that is specific to the American Southwest and other arid regions of the world.

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  • Reverse Entailment

    • Proper noun, singular
      macapagal-arroyo.
  • Independent

    • Noun, singular or mass
      stream.

What are the hypernyms for Arroyo?

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What are the hyponyms for Arroyo?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for arroyo (as nouns)

Usage examples for Arroyo

Three minutes later she climbed out of the arroyo, sat down beside her twin, and hugged Cindy tightly.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
In his arroyo again, he proposed to make the Gringo as a sieve.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
At the first alarm Fra Diavolo had vaulted astride his black horse, and Tiburcio darting out, had caught his bridle, and turned him into the dry bed of the arroyo.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

Famous quotes with Arroyo

  • A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature — swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.
    Roger Zelazny

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