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mud-flat

mud-flat is the alternative form of mudflat.

Meaning of mudflat

Noun

mudflat (plural mudflats)

  1. A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.
    • The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194

Forms of mud-flat

pluralmud-flats

Questions about mud-flat

What is mud-flat the alternative form of?
Mud-flat is the alternative form of mudflat.

Words near mud-flat in the dictionary

  1. mud-crusher
  2. mud-crushers
  3. mud-dwelling
  4. mud-eye
  5. mud-eyes
  6. mud-flat
  7. mud-hogs
  8. mud-kicker
  9. mud-kickers
  10. mud-pie
  11. mud-pies

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