| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| arroyo |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ar·roy·o |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -roi  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ar·roy·os
1. A deep gully cut by an intermittent stream; a dry gulch. 2. A brook; a creek. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *arrugius, gold mine, underground passage, variant of Latin arrugia, a galleried mine.
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