Crossword-Solution: ALLUVIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alluvium | n. | Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “ALLUVIUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| fertile soil deposited by flowing water | 1 answer |
| Soil deposited by a river or flood | 1 answer |
| A fertile deposit of clay or sand left by river floodwater | 1 answer |
| Stream deposit | 2 answers |
| Delta sediment | 2 answers |
| River Deposit | 5 answers |
| DEPOSIT of stream | 6 answers |
| Detritus | 9 answers |
| moraine | 10 answers |
| Dregs | 27 answers |
| Deposit | 43 answers |
| Garbage | 53 answers |
| relic | 63 answers |
| Soil | 63 answers |
| Drift | 70 answers |
| Residue | 75 answers |
| Ground | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLUVIUM (5)
That the actual capacity of a channel through alluvium depends upon its service during floods has been often shown, but this capacity does not include anomalous, but recurrent, floods.
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.
Instead of the running water cutting deeper into the earth it has partly filled the canon with alluvium, thereby demonstrating nature's universal leveling process.
The lofty mountains, their summits marked with a few patches of snow, stood well separated from each other, the valleys being filled up with an immense thickness of stratified alluvium.
Shelter, I believe, as much as the desire to be near fish in Lent, and to occupy the rich alluvium of the valleys, made the monks of Old England choose the river-banks for the sites of their abbeys.
Quotes with ALLUVIUM (2)
It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).