Usually means: Barriers designed to prevent flooding.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. levees: Merriam-Webster
  2. levees: Collins English Dictionary
  3. levees: Vocabulary.com
  4. Levee's, Levees, levee's, levees: Wordnik
  5. levees: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. levees: Wiktionary
  7. levees: Dictionary.com
  8. Levees: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. levees: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. levees: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See levee as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (levee)

noun:  An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.
noun:  An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
noun:  (US) The steep bank of a river.
noun:  (US) The border of an irrigated field.
noun:  (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
verb:  (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
noun:  A reception of visitors held after getting up.
noun:  A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
verb:  (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.
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