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arroyos

arroyos is the plural of arroyo.

Meaning of arroyo

Noun

arroyo (plural arroyos)

  1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
    • Near-synonyms: wadi, nahal, wash, dry wash (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)
    Synonyms:
    wadi, nahal, wash, dry wash[regiolect
  2. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

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Proper noun capitalized: Arroyos

Arroyos (plural Arroyoses)

  1. A surname from Spanish.

Forms of arroyos

pluralArroyoses

Origin of arroyos

Borrowed from Spanish Arroyos. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.

Questions about arroyos

What does arroyos mean?
Arroyos means a surname from Spanish.
What is arroyos the plural of?
Arroyos is the plural of arroyo.
What part of speech is arroyos?
Arroyos is a proper noun.

Words near arroyos in the dictionary

  1. arroyo
  2. Arroyo Concepción
  3. Arroyo Grande
  4. arroyo toad
  5. arroyo willow
  6. arroyos
  7. Arroyoses
  8. arroz
  9. arroz caldo
  10. arroz con leche
  11. arroz con pollo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arroyos (page history and authors); Arroyos (page history and authors); arroyo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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