alluvion

noun

clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment

Roots

adal- · Latin · to, toward luereluvi- · Latin · to wash io-on · Latin · act or process of

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