scour
1
7.7
- noun
- /skaʊər/
- Specialized
:
socavación
- Although the substrate-bound, immobile early life stages were killed by scour of the streambed, the older individuals were affected only by the harshest floods that damaged or destroyed beaver dams.
Examples
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One day, I went out after dinner with my dad to doctor a late calf with scours, a dysentery that could kill him.
Fiction book (1997) -
Substrate scour leads directly to a mechanical grinding and crushing of substrate-bound species and life stages.
Academic text (2013) -
It's got to be a scour hollow.
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I worry about things like foot rot, ringworm, pink eye, and scours.
Academic text (2001) -
In contrast, the benthic sculpins took refuge in substrate interstices in which they got caught by the scour.
Academic text (2013) -
The lack of applicable models is related to the complex interactions between sediment supply, sediment transport, and channel scour (DeVries 2000).
Academic text (2002) -
The lower peak basin accumulations in the sagebrush-dominated scenario occur because of increased snow scour in the absence of trees (Hiemstra et al., 2002).
Academic text (2016) -
Increased sediment delivery to the mouth of the breakwater because of greater tidal scour, combined with a change in the wave-refraction pattern, favored greater transport to the southeast.
Academic text (1994) -
The Army Corps of Engineers tapped design and engineering firm Arcadis of Highlands Ranch, Colo., as the prime consultant to minimize the potential for scour at locations near the Seabrook Gate.
Academic text (2011) -
The river carved a deep scour into the landscape over many years.
Synonyms
A small sunken area in the ground that collects water
How Deep
117
2.5
32
5.3
27
4.7
- Specialized
1
7.7
- Specialized
11
5.3
44
3.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scour as a noun names a hollow or place that water has washed away, coming from the same old word skura meaning 'to wash' or 'flow'. So a scour is literally a spot 'washed out' by running water.