watercourses

noun

plural of watercourse
as in canals
an open man-made passageway for water the Erie Canal was the first watercourse to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes

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Recent Examples of watercourses At the same time, there are riparian natives — those that grow along watercourses — which may need regular attention in terms of water needs for many years after planting. — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
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  1. canals
  2. aqueducts
Noun
  • If time is tighter, the Prague Venice River Cruise lasts 45 minutes and takes you off the river and into the canals.
    — Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 21 July 2026
  • The festival is held annually to celebrate the end of an outbreak of the plague in 1576 and is attended by thousands of people in boats and on the city’s canals, culminating in a fireworks show over the city.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Definition of canals
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  • Roughly half the farm receives water from Northern California via a vast system of aqueducts.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • These properties have enabled the likes of the Pantheon, ancient Roman aqueducts, and even parts of the Colosseum to survive two millennia, while some Brutalist buildings from the 1960s that were made from modern concrete are crumbling.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026
Definition of aqueducts

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