beaver dam
Speech parts
1. beaver dam - Noun
2. Beaver dam - Proper noun
Meaning
beaver dam (plural beaver dams)
The lodge of a beaver, in the form of a river dam with an underwater entrance.
A number of places in Canada:
A settlement in York County, New Brunswick.
A rural community in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona.
A city in Ohio County, Kentucky.
A township in Butler County, Missouri.
A township in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
A city and town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
A river (the Beaver Dam River) in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
An unincorporated community in Kosciusko County, Indiana.
An unincorporated community in Bowie County, Texas.
An unincorporated community in Box Elder County, Utah.
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Examples
Because of this, destroying a beaver dam without removing the beavers is difficult, especially if the dam is downstream of an active lodge.
Beavers and salmon Sockeye salmon jumping over beaver dam Beavers also function as ecosystem engineers; in the process of clear-cutting and damming, beavers alter their ecosystems extensively.
Start at the lowest beaver dam in any river (not just the rivers I mentioned).
This beaver dam on Yellow Marsh Swamp was more than 4 feet tall and had bottled up the channel so much that three upstream beaver dams were under water.