alluvial soil

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   a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds

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Questions about alluvial soil

What does alluvial soil mean?

alluvial soil means "a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds".

Is alluvial soil a common word?

alluvial soil 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.