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Riparian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream.



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"Riparian" Quotes from Famous Books



... crag. acres; real estate &c. (property) 780; landsman[obs3]. V. land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land; come ashore, go ashore, debark. Adj. earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian,; alluvial; terrene &c. (world) 318; landed, predial[obs3], territorial; geophilous[obs3]; ripicolous. Adv. ashore; on ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations; inadequate supplies of potable water; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey; air and water pollution; soil degradation ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... smaller waterways of the valley with like feeling, which, though it has led to no such comprehensive generalization, yet gave me a distinct consciousness of their "grieving," if not for the French, at any rate for the silences that preceded the French, and for their own riparian architecture. The busy towns along the streams I have known have turned their faces from these streams toward the railroads. They have left the riverside to the thriftless men and the truant boys. Stables and ...
— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley


Words linked to "Riparian" :   riverbank


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