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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.
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)
- soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Translations
deposited material
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Latin
Adjective
alluvium
- nominative neuter singular of alluvius
- accusative masculine singular of alluvius
- accusative neuter singular of alluvius
- vocative neuter singular of alluvius
References
- ALLUVIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)