Alluvium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Sediment deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed, flood plain, or delta. Also called alluvion.
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  • n. soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A deposit, usually of mingled sand and mud, resulting from the action of fluviatile currents: applied by geologists to the most recent sedimentary deposits, especially such as occur in the valleys of large rivers: opposed to diluvium (which see).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
    • Variant
    alluvia   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deposit    wash    geest    drift    gravel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    affusion    diluvium    silt    alluvion    clays   
     
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