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ALLUVION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
Synonyms:
alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("alluvion" is a kind of...):
deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)
Meronyms (substance of "alluvion"):
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 "alluvion"):
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
Example:
plains fertilized by annual inundations
Synonyms:
alluvion; deluge; flood; inundation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("alluvion" is a kind of...):
geological phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alluvion"):
debacle (flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer)
flash flood; flashflood (a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration)
Noachian deluge; Noah's flood; Noah and the Flood; the Flood ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("alluvion" is a kind of...):
geologic process; geological process ((geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified)
