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alluvial
[ uh-loo-vee-uhl ]
noun
- alluvial soil.
- Australia. gold-bearing alluvial soil.
alluvial
/ əˈluːvɪəl /
adjective
- of or relating to alluvium
noun
- another name for alluvium
- alluvium containing any heavy mineral, esp gold
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Other Words From
- nonal·luvi·al adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alluvial1
First recorded in 1795–1805; alluvi(um) + -al 1
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Example Sentences
The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.
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In the valleys the land is a deep alluvial loam, easily worked, producing bountiful crops of the finest leaf tobacco.
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The Pryor makes the heaviest, richest shipping, and can only be grown to perfection on alluvial or heavily manured lands.
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As the alluvial deposit is laid down, a good deal of vegetable matter was built into it.
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At the same time the alluvial materials, building out to sea, thus diminish the slope of the stream.
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Since then alluvial plains have filled this estuary to even beyond the original mouth.
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