alluvion
Nouns
- (n) gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
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(n) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- plains fertilized by annual inundations
- (n) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium,