Alluvion
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
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Senses
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the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
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gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- alluvial sedimentflood
- plural
- Alluvions
- possessive
- Alluvion's
- pluralpossessive
- Alluvions'