'alluvium' definitions:
Definition of 'alluvium'
From: WordNet
noun
Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down [syn: alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion]
Synonyms of 'alluvium'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acres,
- alluvion,
- arable land,
- ash,
- cataclysm,
- cinder,
- clay,
- clinker,
- clod,
- crust,
- debris,
- deluge,
- deposit,
- deposition,
- deposits,
- detritus,
- diluvium,
- dirt,
- draff,
- dregs,
- drift,
- dross,
- dry land,
- dust,
- earth,
- ember,
- engulfment,
- feces,
- flood,
- freehold,
- froth,
- glebe,
- grassland,
- ground,
- grounds,
- inundation,
- land,
- landholdings,
- lees,
- lithosphere,
- loess,
- marginal land,
- marl,
- mold,
- moraine,
- offscum,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overrunning,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- real estate,
- real property,
- region,
- regolith,
- scoria,
- scree,
- scum,
- sediment,
- settlings,
- silt,
- sinter,
- slag,
- smut,
- sod,
- soil,
- soot,
- spill,
- spillage,
- subaerial deposit,
- sublimate,
- submersion,
- subsoil,
- terra,
- terra firma,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the country,
- the Deluge,
- the Flood,
- topsoil,
- washout,
- whelming,
- woodland