: the channel occupied or formerly occupied by a stream
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The streambed was orange, as if the rocks had been stained with carrot juice.—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024 On the Tibetan plateau, streambeds are dry and glaciers have melted into dead rock.—Sulmaan Khan, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2014 But the public’s ability to use and access these streambeds was thrown into question in the early 2000s, when some landowners on the Flint River began to challenge the longstanding notion of navigability.—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2024 This has been a privilege ever since Georgia was granted statehood in 1788, when the state (and by extension the state’s residents) became the owner of all navigable streambeds.—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for streambed
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