Riparian

Quick meaning: Riparian is an adjective meaning Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

Meaning

Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly law) A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river.

Example Sentences

A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.

By the time she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

Relying on the fact that both states are riparian states, the court noted that both have “an equal right to make a reasonable use” of the water in the shared basin and that Florida bore the “heavy burden” of proving its case by clear and convincing evidence.

Word Forms

• riparians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include riverine, riverside, waterfront, shore, river, littoral.

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