Tailwater
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tailwater is a noun meaning The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
Meaning
The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
Example Sentences
Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.
Word Forms
- tailwaters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tributary, subwatershed, upstream, understream, lakehead, interbasin.
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