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ALLUVIAL SOIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("alluvial soil" is a kind of...):
dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)
Holonyms ("alluvial soil" is a substance of...):
alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium (clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down)