headstreams in English
‘Waitanyuan’ means literally ‘the headstream of the Bund’ and is centred at the confluence of Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu River.
Use "headstreams" in a sentence
1. The river Thames —affectionately known as Old Father Thames— rises from four headstreams in the picturesque Cotswold Hills of south-central England.
2. The Main is formed near Kulmbach by the joining of its two headstreams, the Red Main and the White Main . The former rises from the Frankish Alb , 50 km in length, and runs through Creussen and Bayreuth .
3. There are clues to the historic boundary in the names of settlements like Audun-le-Tiche (Deutsch-Oth or German Audun) and Audun-le-Roman (Welsch-Oth or Romance Audun) or the names of the two headstreams of the Nied, the Nied Allemande (Deutsche Nied or German Nied) and the Nied Française (Französische Nied or French Nied), which lie on either side of the language boundary and merge almost exactly on the line itself.