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tailwaters

tailwaters is the plural of tailwater.

Meaning of tailwater

Noun

tailwater (countable and uncountable, plural tailwaters)

  1. The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
    • Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.2008 May 27, Peter Kaminsky, “Rules for Reservoirs Pose Threat to Trout Population”, in New York Times

Questions about tailwaters

What is tailwaters the plural of?
Tailwaters is the plural of tailwater.

Words near tailwaters in the dictionary

  1. tailwalking
  2. tailwalks
  3. tailward
  4. tailwards
  5. tailwater
  6. tailwaters
  7. tailwheel
  8. tailwheels
  9. tailwhip
  10. tailwhips
  11. tailwind

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