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What is a wadi?

What is a wadi? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
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Rations were brought up by camels who made the stealthy and perilous journey across the mouth of the wadi nightly from belah.
So we went on, but for fully two miles, till the wadi Adim crossed our path.
This wadi, which is some 63 m. long, obtains water by percolation from the Nile.
Thatched African huts are built on the hillside above the wadi.
To me, the discovery of a woodman in the wadi were as pleasing as the discovery of a woodchuck or a woodswallow or a woodbine.
The Weib river has become a dusty wadi for the first time in living memory.

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