cataract.

A large waterfall carrying a substantial rush of water over a steep drop.

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Words that belong together

• roaring cataract
• plunge over a cataract
• foot of the cataract

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The river plunged over a cataract hidden by spray.

We heard the cataract long before the trees opened.

A rainbow hung above the foot of the cataract.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Literary or geographical in this sense; the everyday medical sense is clouding of the eye's lens. Plural: cataracts