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Science - Geography | | Italian term or phrase: ampie vallecole | "la fascia pedemontana e' solcata da ampie vallecole che alla loro foce mantengono dei piccolissimi stagni".
Now, as far as I know, "vallecola" is a small valley... how can it have a "foce"?? I must be missing something. Can anyone help with the meaning/translation of the sentence?
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12 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 broad dales
Explanation:
val|lé|co|la
s.f.
1 BU piccola valle
http://www.demauroparavia.it/125765
It seems to me that foce here is used extensively as "mouth of the valley"
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&lr=lang_en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENI...
fó|ce
s.f.
1 CO TS geogr., tratto finale di un corso d’acqua che sbocca nel mare, in un lago o in un fiume: la fauna della f. del Po; f. a delta, a estuario
2a LE estens., imboccatura, ingresso di un porto, di uno stretto di mare: legno vidi già |... perire al fine a l’intrar de la f. (Dante) | stretta apertura, passaggio
2c OB LE punto dell’orizzonte in cui sorge il sole: surge ai mortali per diverse foci | la lucerna del mondo (Dante)
3 BU stretto passaggio fra pareti rocciose, gola
HTH
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-09-04 21:50:02 GMT)
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You can also use "hollow" which is synonymous with "small valley" (valletta, vallecola)
Hollow
4. A small valley between mountains.
http://www.answers.com/hollow?initiator=GoogleAnswersModule
"broad hollows / dales"
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