drainage area

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drainage area

noun drainage areas

Synonym of watershed. The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently h
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@misc{drainage_area_2026,
  title = {drainage area},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drainage%20area},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}