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subwatershed

noun

Etymology

From sub- + watershed.

  1. derived from *skeyt-✻ — “to cut, part, divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *skaiþaną✻
  3. inherited from *skaiþan✻
  4. inherited from scēadan
  5. inherited from scheden
  6. compounded as watershed — “water + shed”
  7. prefixed as subwatershed — “sub + watershed”

Definitions

  1. Any of several parts of a watershed that drain to a specific location.

    • Model simulations were conducted in the Gwynns Falls Watershed (171 km 2 ), Maryland, USA, a subwatershed that discharges to the Chesapeake Bay. The three streams included in the Pennino et al.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subwatershed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA