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The eight towers that slope outward like welcoming arms and anchor both bridges to the riverbed are largely completed, soaring the height of 40-story buildings over the river’s gunmetal waters.
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This stretch of the riverbed is strewn with an unimaginable field of Ice Age-era boulders.
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Here the parasitic young attach and drain nutrition from their host before ejecting and settling on the riverbed.
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First Known Use of riverbed
1781
RIVERBED Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of riverbed for English Language Learners
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: the ground at the bottom of a river
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