floodwater

English

Etymology

flood +‎ water

Noun

floodwater (plural floodwaters)

1. (chiefly in the plural) The water of a flood.
   • 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 59:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

Anagrams

• waterflood