STREAMBED
Dictionary entry overview: What does streambed mean? • STREAMBED (noun)
The noun STREAMBED has 1 sense:
1. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream
Familiarity information: STREAMBED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• STREAMBED (noun)
Meaning:
A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
creek bed; streambed
Hypernyms ("streambed" is a kind of...):
bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "streambed"):
dry wash; wash (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))
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