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raingarden

raingarden is the alternative form of rain garden.

Meaning of rain garden

Noun

rain garden (plural rain gardens)

  1. A planted depression or hole that allows rainwater runoff from impervious urban areas, such as roofs and driveways, to be absorbed into the ground.
    • The area around the station, spanning some 150 hectares, will also be transformed, with sunken rain gardens in the public plaza in addition to an outdoor terrace to the station concourse.2023 May 31, Chris Howe, “A new rail Interchange in the Midlands”, in RAIL, number 984, page 61

Forms of raingarden

pluralraingardens

Questions about raingarden

What is raingarden the alternative form of?
Raingarden is the alternative form of rain garden.

Words near raingarden in the dictionary

  1. rainfree
  2. rainfrog
  3. rainfrogs
  4. rainful
  5. raing
  6. raingarden
  7. raingardens
  8. raingauge
  9. raingauges
  10. raingear
  11. raings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raingarden (page history and authors); rain garden (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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