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alluvial

UK/əˈluː.vi.əl/

alluvial adjective: pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.

Adjective

alluvial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.
    • I am a working engineer from the Mount Magdalena district of Coolgardie. I don't want to take up your time with outside details so I will only say that about two years ago I had an opportunity of acquiring a share in a very promising claim—gold, you understand, both reef and alluvial.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
    • Soils are a prominent feature of floodplain environments, and we include them in this section because most of the available information on ancient soils pertains to alluvial examples, aside from those in Quaternary-Recent time.1992, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Robert W. Hook, “Paleoenvironmental Contexts and Taphonomic Modes”, in Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time, page 35

Noun

alluvial (countable and uncountable, plural alluvials)

  1. (countable) A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.
  2. Alluvial soil; specifically, in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil.

alluvial meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

alluvial in Hindi

alluvial; low-lying
कछारी kachārī

alluvial in Tamil

வண்டல், வண்டலாலான, வண்டல்சார்ந்த

alluvial in Urdu

سیلاب آوَردَہ مَٹّی, سیلابی زمین

alluvial in Bengali

পলিমাটি সংক্রান্ত
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alluvial in Malayalam
ഒഴുക്കിൽ വന്നടിഞ്ഞ, എക്കൽ അടിഞ്ഞ, പുഴതൂർന്നുണ്ടായ, അടിഞ്ഞ മണ്ണുകൊണ്ടുണ്ടായ

Examples of alluvial in a sentence

  • The rich alluvial soils of the Peace River Valley are part of our foodlands commons.
  • Most of the township consists of flat alluvial land used for rice paddy.
  • All but one of these major fluvial lowlands is alluvial and aggradational in nature.

All 16 example sentences with alluvial

Forms of alluvial

pluralalluvials

Origin of alluvial

From Latin alluvius (“alluvial”), from alluviō (“an overflowing, inundation”), from alluō (“wash against”). By surface analysis, alluvium + -ial.

Words formed from alluvial

Phrases with alluvial

Questions about alluvial

What does alluvial mean?
Alluvial means pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.
What is alluvial in Hindi?
Alluvial in Hindi is कछारी (kachārī). See Alluvial meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is alluvial?
Alluvial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce alluvial?
Alluvial is pronounced /əˈluː.vi.əl/ (UK).

Words near alluvial in the dictionary

  1. allusivity
  2. allusory
  3. alluv
  4. alluva
  5. alluvia
  6. alluvial
  7. alluvial deposit
  8. alluvial deposits
  9. alluvial fan
  10. alluvial fans
  11. alluvial mining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alluvial (page history and authors); कछारी (Hindi) (page history and authors); alluvial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alluvial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alluvial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alluvial (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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