n. 25B6; noun
WATERCOURSE, waterway, tributary, stream, rivulet, brook, inlet, rill, runnel, freshet; Scottish & N. English burn; N. English beck; S. English bourn; N. Amer. & Austral./NZ creek; Austral. billabong. See list.
a river of molten lava : STREAM, torrent, flood, deluge, cascade.
riparian, fluvial, fluvio-.
25A0; sell someone down the river (informal) . See double-cross .
Longest Rivers
river location
Nile Africa
Amazon South America
Yangtze or Chang Jiang China
Mississippi North America
Yenisei Russia
Amur or Heilong Asia
Ob Russia
Yellow or Huang Ho China
Congo or Zaire Africa
Lena Siberia
Mekong Asia
Mackenzie Canada
Niger Africa
Volga Europe
Paraná South America