Canal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəˈnæl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Canal is a noun meaning An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
Meaning
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
More Meanings
- (anatomy, botany) A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
- (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
- To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
- To travel along a canal by boat
Example Sentences
Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.
In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.
Word Forms
- canals
- canalling
- canalled
Synonyms for canal
Depending on context, synonyms include channel, duct, canalize.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include canalize, channel, duct, waterway, channelization, chute.
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