arroyo
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9.9
- noun
- /əˈrɔɪoʊ/
- US
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arroyo
- All of us know desert Christians who have never been to Egypt, never wandered the dry arroyos of northern New Mexico.
- a dry arroyo
Because some of the areas that we work in, I'll speak to Arizona, you have these arroyos and canyons and brush.
- Because some of the areas that we work in, I'll speak to Arizona, you have these arroyos and canyons and brush.
Examples
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We used to ride horseback down the arroyo to the intersection of roads.
Fiction book (2002) -
Nighthawks buzz in the air, and coyotes sing back and forth across the arroyo.
Fiction book (2002) -
I came up right here, 'cause I walked along that arroyo over there.
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A year after the incident in the arroyo, I again visited my friend.
Academic text (1992) -
The horses are in the arroyo.
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Victor Masayesva's oven is located on the edge of one of his fields alongside a shallow arroyo.
Academic text (2004) -
Pulling off the road just below the brow of the hill, she glanced toward the nearby arroyo.
Fiction book (2000) -
They found your car over in a dried-out arroyo at Topping.
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Gentle slopes packed with sagebrush rose to either side, and a narrow arroyo meandered through the flat bottoms.
Fiction book (1992) -
After the heavy rain, we explored the arroyo that had filled with water.
Synonyms
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8.2
A dry stream bed that fills with water quickly after heavy rain in a desert
Compounds
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Etymology
Arroyo comes from Spanish arroyo, meaning 'small stream' or 'brook'. Think of a dry, narrow riverbed in the desert that is usually empty but suddenly fills and rushes with water after heavy rain, and you will remember why arroyo means a normally dry stream that runs in storms.