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flood plain

flood plain is the alternative form of floodplain.

Meaning of floodplain

Noun

floodplain (plural floodplains)

  1. A low-lying plain adjacent to a river subject to flooding during periods of high rainfall or at high tide.
    • Near-synonyms: bottomland, bottomlands

Forms of flood plain

pluralflood plains

Questions about flood plain

What is flood plain the alternative form of?
Flood plain is the alternative form of floodplain.

Words near flood plain in the dictionary

  1. flood maps
  2. flood meadow
  3. flood meadows
  4. flood out
  5. flood pants
  6. flood plain
  7. flood plain toadlet
  8. flood plain toadlets
  9. flood plains
  10. flood pool
  11. flood pools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flood plain (page history and authors); floodplain (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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