alluvial sediment

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsalluvial depositalluviumalluvion

   Broadersediment

   Narrowerdeltaplacer

Questions about alluvial sediment

What does alluvial sediment mean?

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

What is another word for alluvial sediment?

Close synonyms include alluvial deposit, 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 sediment a common word?

alluvial sediment 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.