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# riverbed

«riverbed» in Mova's school dictionary: **the bottom of a river, the ground the river water flows over** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a riverbed, riverbeds)

### meaning for a pupil

A riverbed is the bottom of a river, the ground the river water flows over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Geography: the riverbed has stones, sand, mud and pebbles; in dry weather a riverbed may be dry. Science: fossils and gold have been found in riverbeds; water smooths stones on the riverbed. Phrases: a dry riverbed, the stony riverbed, along the riverbed.

### examples

- The riverbed was covered with smooth stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#x1)
- In summer the riverbed dried up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#x2)
- Fish lay their eggs on the gravel of the riverbed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#x3)
- We could see the riverbed through the clear water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#x4)
- A dry riverbed can flood very fast after a storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#x5)
- They found an old coin in the riverbed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/#x6)

### note

One word (also «river bed»). Countable. «Bed» here means the bottom — like «seabed». Safety: never camp in a dry riverbed; heavy rain can fill it suddenly.

### In the corpora

- [Fast-moving water can knock you off your feet even below the knee, and riverbeds are slippery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «riverbed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riverbed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.