coulee

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkuːli/    美 /ˈkuli/|/ˈkʉːli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stream, especially one in the western US or Canada, generally smaller than a bayou; it may (or may not) run dry in summer, may be sluggish, shallow, and wide (forming in effect a pond or slough), or may have formerly cut a deep gulch or ravine, but at present run dry.
    — […] Mauvaise Coulee enters Devils Lake from the north, but it cannot be said to drain the lakes with which it is connected. It is itself a long-drawn-out slough or pool which is broader at those places where it spreads out into lakes. […] the head streams or coulees of the Park, the Forest and the Turtle, have all cut deep channels down through the drift into the underlying shales. This is because of the fall from the top of the high plateau down to the low prairie. […] all the larger lakes upon this plateau have already been tapped by the head coulees of the streams named.
  2. A reach of water in a bayou that is like a slough but deeper.
    — We were in a coulee, which is like a slough but deeper and with slushier muds at the bottom.
  3. A lava flow (whether molten or solidified).
    — The edge of a coulee, or stream of solidified lava, though ordinarily a very low escarpment, is exceptionally of such size as to deserve attention in the present connection.

词形变化

coulees plural coulée alternative cooley alternative

词汇关系

相关词
coulis

词源

From French coulée (“flow”), from couler (“to flow”).
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