Usually means: Channel designed to manage floodwaters.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. floodway: Merriam-Webster
  2. floodway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. floodway: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Floodway, floodway: Wordnik
  5. floodway: Wiktionary
  6. floodway: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. floodway: Dictionary.com
  8. Floodway (road), Floodway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. floodway: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floodway: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Floodway: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (floodway)

▸ noun:  An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.

Similar:
spillway, flood pool, floodwall, flowoff, floodboard, waterway, fairway, bluebelt, floodgate, riverbank, more...

Opposite:
drought, dry land, arid zone

Phrases:
Red River Floodway, Manggahan Floodway, more...

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Similar:
spillway, flood pool, floodwall, flowoff, floodboard, waterway, fairway, bluebelt, floodgate, riverbank, more...

Opposite:
drought, dry land, arid zone

Phrases:
Red River Floodway, Manggahan Floodway, more...



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