Resaca
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Resaca is a noun meaning (Texas) A small body of water.
Meaning
(Texas) A small body of water.
More Meanings
- A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas and deep into northeastern portions of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Example Sentences
Even the springs at Carrizo are barely flowing; it is said this is a result of the irrigation. The resacas have all gone dry.
The road lay over dark resacas and running streams, where volcanic rocks rose above each other^([sic]), and every detour might have been made a fortress.
At 10 p. m., two miles west of Brownsville, in a resaca, found these frogs in small bushes, in weedy clumps, and even grassy tangles in overflowed tomato field adjoining the overflowed resaca.
Where resacas (a “resaca” is an old abandoned river channel sometimes many miles in extent) have been used for storage purposes for several years, seepage almost invariably appears within the area of the more pervious soils.
Word Forms
- resacas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include arroyo, recess, riverbed, receipt, reccy, river-bed.
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