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mainstem

mainstem noun: the principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams.

Noun

mainstem (plural mainstems)

  1. The principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams
    • Piramutaba (Brachyplatystoma vaillantii) make up a second large export fishery and are found almost exclusively in the Amazon River mainstem, whitewater tributaries, and the estuary [30 –32 ].2015 July 9, “Diverse Early Life-History Strategies in Migratory Amazonian Catfish: Implications for Conservation and Management”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

mainstem meaning in Urdu

mainstem in Urdu

بڑا راستہ

Forms of mainstem

pluralmainstems

Origin of mainstem

From main + stem.

Questions about mainstem

What does mainstem mean?
Mainstem means the principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams.
What is mainstem in Urdu?
Mainstem in Urdu is بڑا راستہ. See Mainstem meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mainstem?
Mainstem is a noun.
What is the plural of mainstem?
The plural of mainstem is mainstems.

Words near mainstem in the dictionary

  1. mainsprings
  2. mainstage
  3. mainstages
  4. mainstay
  5. mainstays
  6. mainstem
  7. mainstems
  8. Mainstone
  9. mainstream
  10. mainstream consciousness
  11. mainstreamable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mainstem (page history and authors); mainstem (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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