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alluvial

/uh-loo-vee-uhl/US // əˈlu vi əl //UK // (əˈluːvɪəl) //

冲积层,冲积,冲积型,冲积物

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to alluvium.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : alluvial soil.
    • : Australia. gold-bearing alluvial soil.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intellurian
as inearthly

Examples

  • The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.

  • In the valleys the land is a deep alluvial loam, easily worked, producing bountiful crops of the finest leaf tobacco.

  • The Pryor makes the heaviest, richest shipping, and can only be grown to perfection on alluvial or heavily manured lands.

  • As the alluvial deposit is laid down, a good deal of vegetable matter was built into it.

  • At the same time the alluvial materials, building out to sea, thus diminish the slope of the stream.

  • Since then alluvial plains have filled this estuary to even beyond the original mouth.