igarapen.
In South America, a tributary or other water-channel wide enough for a canoe.
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1853 A. R. Wallace Narr. Trav. Amazon ii. 41 Sometimes we would start down the igaripé in the montaria, not returning till late in the afternoon.
1853 A. R. Wallace Narr. Trav. Amazon vii. 168 The word igaripé, applied to all small streams, means ‘path of the canoe’.
1860 M. Reid Odd People 38 Travelling can only be done by water, either upon the great rivers, or by the narrow creeks (igaripes) or lagoons.
1866 L. Agassiz in Atlantic Monthly July 58/1 We turned..into a narrow stream, which has the character of an Igarapé in its lower course.
1933 Discovery Jan. 24/2 It is intersected by innumerable water-ways, the igarapés, along which the tide ebbs and flows.
1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands ii. §1. 59 The filling of the river [sc. Amazon] brings a stoppage of life. Caught in the meshes of the igarapés, man displays a rare stoicism.
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