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debris basins

debris basins is the plural of debris basin.

Meaning of debris basin

Noun

debris basin (plural debris basins)

  1. A facility to catch debris flows, to trap vegetative and sedimentary debris, such as gravel, boulders, branches, trunks; but allow water to drain; to prevent destruction from debris inundation and surge front downstream.

Questions about debris basins

What is debris basins the plural of?
Debris basins is the plural of debris basin.

Words near debris basins in the dictionary

  1. debrined
  2. debrines
  3. debrining
  4. debris
  5. debris basin
  6. debris basins
  7. debris field
  8. debris fields
  9. debris mortar
  10. debris mortars
  11. debris response area

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