Definitions
A dry creek bed or small ravine.
Word origin
Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonyms: wadi, nahal, wash, dry wash (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Dry streambed”6 letters
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