Crossword-Solution: ALLUVIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alluvial | a. | Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ALLUVIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Composed of sand from a flowing river. | 1 answer |
| Like soil in a delta | 1 answer |
| Like the soil in a delta | 1 answer |
| Of a delta deposit | 1 answer |
| Of a flood plain | 1 answer |
| of or relating to alluvium | 1 answer |
| Kind of deposit | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ALLUVIAL (5)
Alluvial diamond deposits are among the richest in the world, making Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds.
The alluvial lands, which many persons believe the negroes alone can cultivate, on account of climatic conditions, are so rich that it might literally be said it is only necessary to tickle them with a hoe to make them laugh back a harvest.
The water cuts the alluvial banks of the 'lower' river into deep horseshoe curves; so deep, indeed, that in some places if you were to get ashore at one extremity of the horseshoe and walk across the neck, half or three quarters of a mile, you could sit down and rest a couple of hours while your steamer was coming around the long elbow, at a speed of ten miles an hour, to take you aboard again.
See Alluvion.] Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
The alluvial coast having no distinguishing marks, the bearings of the crossing-place had to be taken from the shape of the mountains inland.
Quotes with ALLUVIAL (2)
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1952–2019).