ALLUVIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alluvial mean? 

• ALLUVIAL (adjective)
  The adjective ALLUVIAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to alluvium

  Familiarity information: ALLUVIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLUVIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to alluvium

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)