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    ALLUVIUM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: alluvia  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows downplay

    Synonyms:

    alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

    Hypernyms ("alluvium" is a kind of...):

    deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)

    Meronyms (substance of "alluvium"):

    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 "alluvium"):

    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)

    Derivation:

    alluvial (of or relating to alluvium)

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