Meanings of drainage basin in English

The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.

Table showing detailed facts regarding possible reservoir sites on Passaic drainage basin.

The drainage basin of Passaic River is admirably adapted to the development of the conservation system.

Its drainage basin, including in this its own area, is estimated to be about five hundred square miles.

To possess one-half the drainage basin of the valley would have led to constant conflict with the owners of the other half.

It operates five hydropower dams, three on the Paraná River and three in the drainage basin of the Paraíba do Sul River.

All stained (blue or black) nodes in the inguinal drainage basin were removed for pathologic analysis, including carbon particle analysis.

It lies partly within the drainage basin of the Orinoco and partly within that of the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon.

In length it is equal to the Yenisei and Blue River, but its drainage basin is larger than that of either of the others.

It is the drainage basin for rivers that start in the snowy mountains of India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan including the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Teesta.

In the drainage basin of the Ganges, through which the train is again carrying us south-eastwards, 100 million human beings, mostly Hindus, have their home.

Headwaters account for a high proportion of total freshwater stream-channel length in a drainage basin and are critical habitats for rare, endangered, and specialized species.

The drainage basin of the St. Lawrence was called New France (or Canada); the lands near Port Royal became another French colony, called Acadia.

Key (sentinel) cervical lymph nodes in the regional lymphatic drainage basin were identified, selectively excised during SLND, and examined for microscopic evidence of tumor cells.

Some canyons branch at their upper ends resembling dendritic patterns of onshore river drainage basins.

Results: Intraoperative lymphatic mapping identified sentinel nodes in 90% of the regional drainage basins.