throughflow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The movement of water horizontally beneath the land surface, usually when the soil is completely saturated.
  2. The movement of an identifiably separate body of water through a larger body (such as a current of fresh water through salt water).

Word forms

throughflow throughflows

Etymology

From through + flow.

Related words

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