Usually means: Area adjacent to river, floods.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. floodplain: Merriam-Webster
  2. floodplain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floodplain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. floodplain: Vocabulary.com
  5. Floodplain, floodplain: Wordnik
  6. floodplain: Wiktionary
  7. floodplain: Dictionary.com
  8. Floodplain (Kronos Quartet album), Floodplain (Sara Groves album), Floodplain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. floodplain: Rhymezone
  10. floodplain: FreeDictionary.org
  11. floodplain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. floodplain: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. floodplain: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floodplain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. floodplain: Natural History Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. floodplain: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See floodplains as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (floodplain)

noun:  (geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.

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