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Webster 1913 Edition


Alluvium

Al-lu′vi-um

,
Noun.
;
pl. E.
Alluviums
, L.
Alluvia
.
[L., neut. of
alluvius
. See
Alluvious
.]
(Geol.)
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.
Lyell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Alluvium

ALLU'VIUM

,
Noun.
[L. alluvio, of ad and lavo or luo, alluo, to wash. See Lave.]
1.
The insensible increase of earth on a shore, or bank of a river, by the force of water, as by a current or by waves. The owner of the land thus augmented has a right to the alluvial earth.
2.
A gradual washing or carrying of earth or other substances to a shore or bank; the earth thus added.
3.
The mass of substances collected by means of the action of water.
In this alluvium was found the entire skeleton of a whale.

Definition 2024


alluvium

alluvium

English

Noun

alluvium (plural alluviums or alluvia)

  1. soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

Translations


Latin

Adjective

alluvium

  1. nominative neuter singular of alluvius
  2. accusative masculine singular of alluvius
  3. accusative neuter singular of alluvius
  4. vocative neuter singular of alluvius

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