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corrivation

corrivation noun: the flowing of different streams into one.

Noun

corrivation (countable and uncountable, plural corrivations)

  1. (obsolete) The flowing of different streams into one.
    • […] and so likewise about corrivations of water to moisten and refresh barren grounds, to drain fens, bogs, and moors.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
  2. The concentration of waters from a watershed to a remote outlet.

Forms of corrivation

pluralcorrivations

Origin of corrivation

From Latin corrivatio.

Questions about corrivation

What does corrivation mean?
Corrivation means the flowing of different streams into one.
What part of speech is corrivation?
Corrivation is a noun.
What is the plural of corrivation?
The plural of corrivation is corrivations.

Words near corrivation in the dictionary

  1. corrivalship
  2. corrivate
  3. corrivated
  4. corrivates
  5. corrivating
  6. corrivation
  7. corrivations
  8. Corriveau
  9. Corriveaus
  10. corro
  11. corrobboree

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