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ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alluvial deposit mean?
• ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT (noun)
The noun ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT has 1 sense:
1. clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
Familiarity information: ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium
Hypernyms ("alluvial deposit" is a kind of...):
deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)
Meronyms (substance of "alluvial deposit"):
alluvial soil (a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alluvial deposit"):
delta (a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water)
placer (an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral)
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