"resaca" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Here and there along the river-bottom, or along the sloughs or “resacas” are found, as Mr. Schwarz has elsewhere stated, “isolated stripes of larger or smaller extent, covered with a dense forest having a thick undergrowth of varied shrubbery and a rich vegetation of lower plants, the like of which is not seen in any other place in southwestern Texas.”",
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          "text": "Where resacas (a “resaca” is an old abandoned river channel sometimes many miles in extent) have been used for storage purposes for several years, seepage almost invariably appears within the area of the more pervious soils.",
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          "text": "At 10 p. m., two miles west of Brownsville, in a resaca, found these frogs in small bushes, in weedy clumps, and even grassy tangles in overflowed tomato field adjoining the overflowed resaca.",
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        "(Texas) A small body of water."
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      "ipa": "[reˈsa.ka]"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/reˈsaka/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[reˈsa.ka]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "resaca"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Rhymes:Spanish/aka",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/aka/3 syllables",
    "Spanish 3-syllable words",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish non-lemma forms",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Spanish verb forms",
    "es:Drinking"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "resaca",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "re‧sa‧ca"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "resacar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of resacar:\n## third-person singular present indicative\n## second-person singular imperative",
        "third-person singular present indicative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "resacar",
          "resacar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "inflection of resacar:\n"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "resacar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of resacar:\n## third-person singular present indicative\n## second-person singular imperative",
        "second-person singular imperative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "resacar",
          "resacar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "inflection of resacar:\n"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/reˈsaka/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[reˈsa.ka]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "resaca"
}