WATER PARTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water parting mean? 

• WATER PARTING (noun)
  The noun WATER PARTING has 1 sense:

1. a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

  Familiarity information: WATER PARTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER PARTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

divide; water parting; watershed

Hypernyms ("water parting" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water parting"):

continental divide (the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico))

Instance hyponyms:

Great Divide (that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States)