alluvium

3 definitions found

alluvium - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Alluvium \Al*lu"vi*um\, n.; pl. E. Alluviums, L. Alluvia.
     [L., neut. of alluvius. See Alluvious.] (Geol.)
     Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported
     matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land
     not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or
     seas. --Lyell.
     [1913 Webster]

alluvium - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  alluvium
      n 1: clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and
           deposited where the stream slows down [syn: alluvial sediment
           , alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion]

alluvium - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "alluvium":
     acres, alluvion, arable land, ash, cataclysm, cinder, clay,
     clinker, clod, crust, debris, deluge, deposit, deposition,
     deposits, detritus, diluvium, dirt, draff, dregs, drift, dross,
     dry land, dust, earth, ember, engulfment, feces, flood, freehold,
     froth, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, inundation, land,
     landholdings, lees, lithosphere, loess, marginal land, marl, mold,
     moraine, offscum, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, precipitate,
     precipitation, real estate, real property, region, regolith,
     scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut,
     sod, soil, soot, spill, spillage, subaerial deposit, sublimate,
     submersion, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory,
     the Deluge, the Flood, the country, topsoil, washout, whelming,
     woodland