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8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for ALLUVIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:

land gained from the sea by the washing up of sand and earth, also ALLUVION
a deposit of clay, silt, and sand left by flowing floodwater in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil.
fertile soil deposited by flowing water
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

detrital material deposited by running water

Words related to ALLUVIUM

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Words that contain ALLUVIUM

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How to use ALLUVIUM in a sentence

Down in sheltered lake hollows, on beds of rich alluvium, it varies so far from the common form as frequently to be taken for a distinct species.
This stands towering out in lonely sublimity, like the everlasting granite of the Alps or the Himalaya, as compared with the changing alluvium of the Nile or the Ganges.
It is very hilly, and the rock is, where we passed, a rotten slate which the rains and the torrents cut away rapidly, carrying the alluvium down to the plains and Lake of Scutari.
The same was true of the sands, though the last was rarely of as great depth as the mud, or alluvium.
At last, when the Babylonian alluvium was reached, with its abundance of fodder and corn, signs of the enemy began to be observed.
The date-palm does not bear well above the alluvium, and such fruit as it produces in the upper country is very little esteemed.
The present area of the alluvium west of the Tigris and the Shat-el-Arab maybe estimated at about 30,000 square miles.
According to the historians of Julian, a forest of verdure extended from the upper edge of the alluvium, which he crossed, to Mesene, and the shores of the sea.
The alluvium is wholly destitute of metals, and even of stone, which must be obtained, if wanted, from the adjacent countries.
Probably, however, the chief importation of stone was by the rivers, whose waters would readily convey it to almost any part of Chaldaea from the regions above the alluvium.

The soil was a deep and rich alluvium, and was cultivated with the utmost care.
Here and there, dwarf spruce, rooting and grovelling in the shallow alluvium, marked the proximity of the timber line.
The alluvium of the Euphrates, of the Mississippi, of the Hoang Ho, of the Amazons would take in many Lombardies and half-a-dozen Venetias without noticing the addition.
For, as we saw foreshadowed in the case of the Alps and Apennines, the bigger the mountains on which we can draw the greater the resulting mass of alluvium.
Along the coast, between Chichester Harbour and Brighton, stretched a long, narrow, level strip of clay and alluvium, suitable for the dwelling-place of an agricultural people.
A little higher up there are small areas of alluvium, or bottom land, in recesses and coves in the walls and generally only a foot or two above the stream bed.
The site is a low hill or end of a slope, the top of which is perhaps 25 feet above the stream bed, but separated from it by a belt of recent alluvium carpeted with grass.
The hill itself was formed of talus, covered with alluvium, all but a small portion of which was subsequently cut away, leaving an almost vertical face 15 or 18 feet high.
The change in ascending this range, from the alluvium near its base, to the primitive formation of which it is itself composed, is very remarkable.
The large alluvium plains north of lake, cut through by rivers, allow these bones to settle on their rocky beds.
They were all a soft, fine-grained alluvium, without pebbles.
The soil is chiefly volcanic ash, disintegrated basalt and alluvium.

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