alluvial deposit

1. 1.

   clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

   Synonymsalluvial sedimentalluviumalluvion

   Broadersediment

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Questions about alluvial deposit

What does alluvial deposit mean?

alluvial deposit means "clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down".

What is another word for alluvial deposit?

Close synonyms include alluvial sediment, alluvium, alluvion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alluvial deposit a common word?

alluvial deposit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.