meandering stream

American  

[mee-an-der-ing streem] / miˈæn dər ɪŋ ˈstrim /

noun

plural

meandering streams

1. a slow stream with a winding course through an area of flatland.

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meandering stream Scientific  

/ mē-ăn′dər-ĭng /

1. A stream consisting of successive meanders. Meandering streams develop in relatively flat areas, such as a floodplain, and where sediment consists primarily of fine sands, silts, and muds.

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Example Sentences

The bones and rocks rested on a sandy flood plain by a meandering stream.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017

But at the bend of a meandering stream, the thalweg moves to the cut bank.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Poverty Creek is a meandering stream, edged by wetlands and shaded by Appalachian hardwood, that flows southwest from the continental divide just outside of Blacksburg, Virginia.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2015

On a recent crystalline morning, overlooking a valley with a wide, meandering stream, he gave advice on loading the fertilizer and seeds behind the tractor for planting.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2014

He was walking along a tree that had fallen across a meandering stream.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George