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HEADSTREAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does headstream mean?
• HEADSTREAM (noun)
The noun HEADSTREAM has 1 sense:
1. a stream that forms the source of a river
Familiarity information: HEADSTREAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stream that forms the source of a river
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("headstream" is a kind of...):
stream; watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)
Instance hyponyms:
Blue Nile (a headstream of the Nile; joins the White Nile at Khartoum to form the Nile)
White Nile (a headstream of the Nile; joins the Blue Nile at Khartoum to form the Nile)
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