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alluvion

English

  1. 🔊 gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
  2. 🔊 clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
  3. 🔊 the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
    “plains fertilized by annual inundations”

Similar words

alluvial sediment alluvial deposit alluvium flood inundation deluge