updrainage
English
Etymology
up- + drainage
Adjective
updrainage (comparative more updrainage, superlative most updrainage)
- Upstream in the direction of drainage.
- 1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader:
- The likely reason that the plant went belly up at that site was that a housing development went in updrainage of the site.
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Related terms
- downdrainage
- upgradient
- upslope
- upstream