alluvial soil
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Definition(s):
- (n) a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds
Usage(s):
- Left to its own devices, a flooding river spreads horizontally, filling its natural floodplain and enriching it with fertile, alluvial soil.
- The rich alluvial soil, deposited when the gorged rivers were allowed to burst their banks and leave behind their silt, stretches flat and monotonous, the streams muddy and sluggish.
- The new land is on top of a mountain, so it will not be nearly so good for farming as the rich alluvial soil they till now by the river's edge.
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