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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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... wide, sloping fields, and some hundred feet above the valley I crossed a little canal. It was made on a very good system, and I recommend it to the riparian owners of the Upper Wye, which needs it. They take the water from the Moselle (which is here broad and torrential and falls in steps, running over a stony bed with little swirls and rapids), and they lead it along at an even gradient, averaging, as it were, the uneven descent ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc
... were not the whole of life's programme up there on that wild ridge with its shaggy pelt of spruce and firs, and in the riparian lowlands that it parted. We had a bit of war now and again. There was an occasional "affair of outposts"; sometimes a hazardous scout into the enemy's country, ordered, I fear, more to keep up the ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... portion of the boundary with India is in dispute; water-sharing problems with upstream riparian ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency


Words linked to "Riparian" :   riparian forest, riparian right, riverbank


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