riverbed

«riverbed» in Mova's school dictionary: the bottom of a river, the ground the river water flows over — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a riverbed, riverbeds)

meaning for a pupil

A riverbed is the bottom of a river, the ground the river water flows over. tree →

sense in the lessons

Geography: the riverbed has stones, sand, mud and pebbles; in dry weather a riverbed may be dry. Science: fossils and gold have been found in riverbeds; water smooths stones on the riverbed. Phrases: a dry riverbed, the stony riverbed, along the riverbed.

examples

• The riverbed was covered with smooth stones. tree →
• In summer the riverbed dried up. tree →
• Fish lay their eggs on the gravel of the riverbed. tree →
• We could see the riverbed through the clear water. tree →
• A dry riverbed can flood very fast after a storm. tree →
• They found an old coin in the riverbed. tree →

note

One word (also «river bed»). Countable. «Bed» here means the bottom — like «seabed». Safety: never camp in a dry riverbed; heavy rain can fill it suddenly.

In the corpora

• Fast-moving water can knock you off your feet even below the knee, and riverbeds are slippery.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «riverbed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.