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wadis

wadis is the plural of wadi.

Meaning of wadi

Noun

wadi (plural wadis or wadies)

  1. A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
    • Near-synonyms: nahal, wash, dry wash, arroyo (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)
    Synonyms:
    nahal, wash, dry wash, arroyo[regiolect

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Questions about wadis

What is wadis the plural of?
Wadis is the plural of wadi.

Words near wadis in the dictionary

  1. wading pools
  2. Wading River
  3. wading through
  4. wadingly
  5. wadings
  6. wadis
  7. Wadiyara Koli
  8. Wadjak
  9. wadjela
  10. wadjelas
  11. Wadjemup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wadis (page history and authors); wadi (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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