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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lying between two streams.

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Examples

  • These irregular plains with broad interstream areas have a mosaic of cropland, pasture, woodland, and forest.

    Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA) 2009

  • These irregular plains with broad interstream areas have a mosaic of cropland, pasture, woodland, and forest.

    Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA) 2008

  • It is not only beautiful and of splendid design, but is a boost and a great credit to our city. surface features consist of high, rolling uplands and broad, gently undulating interstream areas in the wide, level stretches.

    Eastern North Carolina, Where Prosperity is Perennial, Invites You! N.C. Kinston 1924

  • The flat interstream areas are as yet but little scored by drainage lines, and in wet weather water lingers in ponds in any initial depressions on the plain.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

  • Whether a river begins its life on a lake plain, as in the example just cited, or upon a coastal plain lifted from beneath the sea or on a spread of glacial drift left by the retreat of continental ice sheets, such as covers much of Canada and the northeastern parts of the United States, its infantile stage presents the same characteristic features, -- a narrow and shallow valley, with undeveloped tributaries and undrained interstream areas.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

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