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A line that divides two adjacent river systems
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watershed
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WordNet
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n. a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems [syn: water parting , divide ] an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend; "the agreement was a watershed in the history of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB mark ▪ In many ways this innovation by Peter Husbands marks the watershed of drama education. ▪ In terms of our longer history of medico-moral politics the battle over the legislation certainly marked a watershed in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divide \Di*vide"\, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting . A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide .
Wikipedia
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Watershed is the ninth full-length studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band Opeth . Released by Roadrunner Records , Watershed is the first studio album by Opeth to feature guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and drummer Martin Axenrot , who replaced longtime ...
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Permaculture One or the periodical, The International Permaculture Species Yearbook and the Friends of the Trees Society publication, International Green Front Report, of possible tree species that would fit well in the Watershed.
Our work on our watersheds with seeds, permaculture and natural plants could enable us to be of some assistance to the human family and to the earth, as the ecosystems are impacted.
But that was before the coming of the east-and-west canal and the eastand-west railroads, which virtually upheaved a new watershed and changed the whole physiographic, social, and economic relationships of the west.
The longer that cane growers refuse to clean up their waste and the more unfiltered scum they pump into the watershed, the greater the public backlash.
It served as the boundary between Italian Gaul and Italia proper on the western side of the Apennine watershed.
At first Caesar had worried about the Arverni, whose lands were on the western side of the watershed, but as time went on and no Arverni appeared, even a lost one, he began to believe that he would get to Vienne without a single warning flying to Vercingetorix.
On the Watershed the natural mixture of native grasses are all but gone on the broadscale but isolated stands can be found.
They were, perhaps, the final flowering of all this history: not a turning point, as he had thought, or a watershed, but rather the final roar of an avalanche that had started slowly, thousands of years before, in the slow settling of layer upon layer of coldheartedness and cruelty onto the high ground of the nature of Man.
Viewers themselves clapped, tens of thousands of hands clapping, in living rooms throughout the Cuyahoga River watershed.
Croatia flow into the Black Sea and the Adriatic, and the watershed between the two basins lies along the Dinaric range.
The Mattole Restoration Council is made up of many other groups and networks, such as the Mattole Coordinating Council whose members are the Environmental Protection Information Center, the Mattole Soil and Water Conservation Committee, the Upper Mattole Property Owners Association, the Mattole Watershed Salmon Support Group, the Mattole Watershed Taxpayers Association, the Redwoods Monastery Community, the Coastal Headwaters Association, and the Sinkyone Council.
Cabra is built in a fertile valley between the Sierra de Cabra and the Sierra de Montilla, which together form the watershed between the rivers Cabra and Guadajoz.
There were, to be sure, still other portage paths than those across watersheds, and the most common were those that led around waterfalls or impassable rapids, such as Champlain and the Jesuits followed on their journeys up the Ottawa to the Nipissing.
After all these years, the climb over into the Quinault watershed is no longer one he is looking forward to as a chance to push himself, a good stretch of the legs.
Murray would come down from the Stikine country, cross the watershed of the Upper Skeena, checking the cabins of the old Yukon telegraph line as they went.