Usually means: Deposited sediment spread by water.
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  1. alluvial fan: Merriam-Webster
  2. alluvial fan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alluvial fan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alluvial fan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alluvial fan: Vocabulary.com
  6. alluvial fan: Wiktionary
  7. alluvial fan: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. alluvial fan: Dictionary.com
  9. Alluvial fan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. alluvial fan: Rhymezone
  11. alluvial fan: FreeDictionary.org
  12. alluvial fan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. alluvial fan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. alluvial fan: Merriam-Webster

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  1. alluvial fan: Encyclopedia

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  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. alluvial fan: Natural History Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alluvial fan: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alluvial fan)

noun:  A cone-shaped heap of alluvium deposited by a river.

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