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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈɹɔɪ.əʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /əˈɹɔɪ.oʊ/
• ハイフネーション: ar‧ro‧yo

名詞

arroyo (plural arroyos)

1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).

   Coordinate term: billabong (similar but not in main channel)

   Near-synonyms: wadi, nahal, wash, dry wash (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.

2. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

派生語

参考

• coulee
• draw
• wash