Coulee

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Western U.S. A deep gulch or ravine with sloping sides, often dry in summer.
  • n. Louisiana & Southern Mississippi A streambed, often dry according to the season.
  • n. Louisiana & Southern Mississippi A small stream, bayou, or canal.
  • n. Upper Midwest A valley with hills on either side.
  • n. A stream of molten lava.
  • n. A sheet of solidified lava.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stream.
  • n. A lava flow.
  • n. A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A stream.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A dry ravine or gulch; a channel worn by running water in times of excessive rainfall or by the sudden melting of the snow.
  • n. A flow: used principally, by some geologists, of lava-flows.
  • Word Usage
    "I wondered about the word coulee in the old song: "... they feed in the coulees and water in the draws ...""
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stream   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bernoulli    Julie    cooley    coolly    cruelly    duly    hooley    lazuli    newly    truly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chimney-place    cuspidor    hyperbola    brooklet    rockaway    arroyo    fanfaronade    swale    watercourse    gulch