- brook, creek - a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
--1 is a kind of stream, watercourse
--1 has particulars: Aegospotami, Aegospotamos - Creek - any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
--2 is a kind of Indian, North American Indian, American Indian, Red Indian