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floodwalls

floodwalls is the plural of floodwall.

Meaning of floodwall

Noun

floodwall (plural floodwalls)

  1. A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
    • The New Orleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm […].2007 May 29, John Schwartz, “Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?”, in New York Times

Questions about floodwalls

What is floodwalls the plural of?
Floodwalls is the plural of floodwall.

Words near floodwalls in the dictionary

  1. floodtide
  2. floodtides
  3. floodtime
  4. floodtimes
  5. floodwall
  6. floodwalls
  7. floodwater
  8. floodwaters
  9. floodway
  10. floodways
  11. floodwood

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