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Bottomland

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See bottom.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Flat land along a river, lying few feet above normal high water, often consisting of alluvial deposits and naturally fertile.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

n. low-lying alluvial land near a river.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as bottom, 3.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. low-lying alluvial land near a river

Word Usage

"And a lot of the best farmland is often bottomland, and it's called bottomland for a reason, because that's where the natural reservoirs were where rivers would overflow and sit there and deposit silt, very fertile land."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

land ground soil

Cross Reference

floodplain

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

bottom

Same Context

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