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* Arroyo (creek) - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally.
* Barachois - a lagoon separated fromthe ocean by a sand bar
* Basin - a region of land where water from rain or snowmelt drains downhill into another body of water, such as a river, lake, or dam.
* Bay - an area of waterbordered by land on three sides.
* Bayou - a slow-moving stream or a marshy lake.
* Beck - a small stream.
* Bight - a large and often only slightly receding bay, or a bend in any geographicalfeature.
* Billabong - a pond or still body of water created when a river changes course and some water becomes trapped. Australian.
* Boil - a body of water formed by a spring.
* Brook - asmall stream.
* Burn - a small stream.
* Canal - a man-made waterway, usually connected to (and sometimes connecting) existing lakes, rivers, or oceans.
* Channel - the physical confineof a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks. See also stream bed and strait.
* Cove - a coastal landform. Earth scientists generally use the term to describe a circular orround inlet with a narrow entrance, though colloquially the term is sometimes used to describe any sheltered bay.
* Creek - a small stream.
* Creek (tidal) - an inlet of the sea, narrower than a...
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