CREEK BED

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream

Synonyms:

creek bed; streambed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("creek bed" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creek bed"):

dry wash; wash (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))