fast-flowing stream

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stream
noun[C]
uk
/striːm/us
/striːm/
water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ...
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(Definition ofstreamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In most cases, there would also be afast-flowingstreamor river nearby.
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The companions venture out cautiously into the barren surroundings, encountering a variety of highly mutated insect-like creatures, as well as a few sources of water, including afast-flowingstream.
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There is afast-flowingstream.
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Other forms of renewable energy require fast-flowing streams, windy headlands or set-aside land on which to grow willow.
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They comprised afforestation measures: measures to improve deteriorated forests: other necessary supplementary measures such as the construction of forest roads: and the control of fast-flowing streams and fire protection.
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The requirements of its habitat have been difficult to determine, for it has been found in a wide range of water bodies except fast-flowing streams.
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The habitat of the sturgeon chub is murky river bottoms in fast-flowing streams with gravel bottoms.
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Males have a very iridescent hindwing which is flashed in display to females and maintain their territories along stretches of moderately fast-flowing streams.
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The cold, fast-flowing streams of the mountains are its habitat.
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The habitat consists of shady, dense, mature hillside woodland with fast-flowing streams.
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Wind power was widely available and not confined to the banks of fast-flowing streams, or later, requiring sources of fuel.
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They are found near fast-flowing streams where the larvae live.
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Secondly, it took spinning away from the home-bases to specific areas where fast-flowing streams could provide water power for the larger machines.
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The moorland is an elevated plateau with gritstone escarpments or edges and, around its margins, deeply incised v-shaped valleys or cloughs with fast-flowing streams.
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This species is rare in clear waters across stony ground, and is absent altogether from fast-flowing streams.
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