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Categories: Water streams, Bodies of water, Rivers, Fluvial landforms, Sedimentology

river lower course Middle course river flows river maintenance flow

A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) WordNet 3.0

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A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually a freshwater stream, flowing on the earth's land surface or inside caves towards another waterbody at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, sea, bay, lake, wetland, or another river. Wikipedia

Flowing body of water. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Larger natural watercourse Wikidata

A stream of water which flows in a channel from high ground to low ground and ultimately to a lake or the sea, except in a desert area where it may dwindle away to nothing. OmegaWiki

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. Wiktionary

The river was navigable for 50 miles WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods. Wiktionary

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