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mud flat

mud flat is the alternative spelling 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 spelling of?
Mud flat is the alternative spelling of mudflat.

Words near mud flat in the dictionary

  1. mud fever
  2. mud fight
  3. mud fights
  4. mud flap
  5. mud flaps
  6. mud flat
  7. mud flats
  8. mud flood
  9. mud flow
  10. mud hen
  11. mud hens

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