alluvion

alluvion has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
• n.. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
• n.. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
• n.. An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
• n.. clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
• n.. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
• n.. gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment