updrainage
adjEtymology From up- + drainage.
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Upstream in the direction of drainage.
- The likely reason that the plant went belly up at that site was that a housing development went in updrainage of the site.1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2011:
- Related terms
- downdrainage, upgradient, upslope, upstream