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namatocole (verb), namatocoles; namatocoled; namatocoling: brooks, streams
To thrive or to live in brooks and streams.
This entry is located in the following unit: -cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous (page 14)
(Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the practice of extracting natural gas from underground shale deposits by injecting high-pressure streams of water, sand, and chemicals)
Word Entries containing the term: “streams
allochthonous stream (s) (noun), allochthonous streams (pl)
A stream that flows in a channel it did not itself form: Mr. Smart showed his class a photo of a river, or allochthonous stream, rushing along in a man-made or artificial duct.
This entry is located in the following units: allo-, all- (page 3) chthon- + (page 1)
superposed stream (s) (noun), superposed streams (pl)
A flow of water whose course is determined by the slope of the land by erosion of the overlying layers that result in rivers: Some narrow mountain ranges have steep-sided river valleys slicing directly across them because the river was originally a superposed stream on the range from a gently sloping plain that used to exist above it.