ALLUVIAL SEDIMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("alluvial sediment" is a kind of...):

deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)

Meronyms (substance of "alluvial sediment"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alluvial sediment"):

delta (a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water)

placer (an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral)