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drainage area

NOUN
drainage basin
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His second shot wasn’t much more accurate, and it might have hit a spectator before it took a fortunate roll from the rough into a grassy drainage area off the green.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

The researchers decided to examine the water because it contains carbon signatures from the entire drainage area, which in turn convey information about origin and land use.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

He then slipped into a drainage area on the east side of Huckleberry Mountain.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2023

During August, there was 60% less rainfall in the river's drainage area than normal, according to official Chinese data.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2022

It is in the middle portion of this strip of lowland, especially in the drainage area of the Bay of David, that the most plentiful evidences of ancient occupation are found.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes


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