rainwash
/reyn-wosh, -wawsh/US // ˈreɪnˌwɒʃ, -ˌwɔʃ //
雨水冲刷,雨洗,雨水洗涤,洗雨
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : material eroded or swept away by rain.
Examples
Often much of the face of the cliff is covered with slip or rainwash, and overgrown with vegetation.
In winter the clays become semi-liquid, in summer the surface may be largely slip and rainwash, baked hard by the sun.
It has been formed by rainwash from a hill of chalk, which must once have existed to the south.
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