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alluvion

al·lu·vion

uncommon

noun

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the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

  • “plains fertilized by annual inundations”
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3.

clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

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Borrowed from Latin alluviō.

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