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See also: Arroyo
English[edit]
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arroyo (plural arroyos)
- A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
- 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).
Translations[edit]
creek which only seasonally flows
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any water course
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French[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
arroyo m (plural arroyos)
Further reading[edit]
- “arroyo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *arrugium, from Latin arrugia (“mineshaft”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
arroyo m (plural arroyos)
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Verb[edit]
arroyo
Further reading[edit]
- “arroyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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