dry wash

Other forms: dry washes

Definitions of dry wash
  1. noun
    the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
    synonyms: wash
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    type of:
    creek bed, streambed
    a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream
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