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plural arroyos
(Texas) A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain). quotations examples
Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.
1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, part 1
(Texas) Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally). examples