fiumaran.
/fjuːˈmɑːrə/ A flooded river, a mountain torrent: also the dry bed left by it.
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1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily II. x. 244 The road was no more than a fiumara, over which at this time a torrent from the melted snow was flowing.
1833 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 396 We passed various fiumaras..dry, of course.
1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 104 The burns..descending from the upper heights form fiumaras of considerable extent.
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