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drainage areas

drainage areas is the plural of drainage area.

Meaning of drainage area

Noun

drainage area (plural drainage areas)

  1. Synonym of watershed.
    • The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently...1954, Herold J. Wiens, “Tribal Uprisings”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 192
    Synonyms:
    watershed

Questions about drainage areas

What is drainage areas the plural of?
Drainage areas is the plural of drainage area.

Words near drainage areas in the dictionary

  1. drain-like
  2. drainability
  3. drainable
  4. drainage
  5. drainage area
  6. drainage areas
  7. drainage basin
  8. drainage basins
  9. drainage divide
  10. drainage divides
  11. drainage pipe

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