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- noun Plural form of
headstream .
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Examples
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Its headwaters are located east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colfax County, New Mexico, formed by headstreams flowing from Colorado.
Rivers of Texas 2008
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The main headstreams, the Blue Nile and the White Nile, join at Khartoum in Sudan to form the Nile proper.
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Among and about the headstreams and tributaries of this mighty river lie the wide and fertile provinces of the Egyptian
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919
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Stieler's atlas marks no less than six trade routes over the passes of these mountains from Kashgar to the headstreams of the Sir-daria and Oxus, and six from Yarkand to the Oxus and Indus.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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The Orange has three distinct sets of headstreams from the western flank of the Drakensberg, and a total length of 1,300 miles.
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government Great Britain. War Office 1876
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