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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 downplay

  Familiarity information: ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT (noun)


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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