alluvial plain

1. 1.

   a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water

   Synonymsalluvial flat

   Broaderflat

Questions about alluvial plain

What does alluvial plain mean?

alluvial plain means "a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water".

What is another word for alluvial plain?

Close synonyms include alluvial flat. 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 plain a common word?

alluvial plain 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.