RIVERBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riverbed mean? 

• RIVERBED (noun)
  The noun RIVERBED has 1 sense:

1. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river

  Familiarity information: RIVERBED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVERBED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

river bottom; riverbed

Hypernyms ("riverbed" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

 Context examples 

Mars is covered in gullies and dry riverbeds, but scientists have always been baffled as to how water could have existed on the freezing world.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The initial discovery of M. moyowamkia happened in 2004, when part of the skeleton was discovered high in a cliff wall overlooking the seasonally dry Mtuka riverbed, with excavations continuing through 2008.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Its name is derived from the Swahili term for "animal of the Mtuka (with) a heart-shaped tail," in reference to the riverbed (Mtuka) in which it was discovered and the unique shape of its tail bones.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)