Wadis synonyms

From the inner slopes of the plateau numerous wadis take a direction towards the Sahara.

Though there are no perennial rivers, there are watercourses (khors or wadis) in the rainy season; the chief being the Khor Abu Habl, which traverses the southcentral region.

It is probable that certain rudely chipped flints, so-called eoliths, in the alluvial gravels (formed generally at the mouth of wadis opening on to the Nile) at Thebes and elsewhere, are the work of primitive man; but it has been shown that such are produced also by natural forces in the rush of torrents.

It is a rugged, rocky, barren waste, scored with khors or wadis, along whose beds there is scanty vegetation.