Usually means: Sediment deposited by flowing water.
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  1. alluvium: Merriam-Webster
  2. alluvium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alluvium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alluvium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alluvium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alluvium, alluvium: Wordnik
  7. alluvium: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alluvium: Wiktionary
  9. alluvium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alluvium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alluvium: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alluvium: Dictionary.com
  13. alluvium: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Alluvium (peercasting), Alluvium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Alluvium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. alluvium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. alluvium: Rhymezone
  18. Alluvium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. alluvium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. alluvium: FreeDictionary.org
  21. alluvium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. alluvium: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. alluvium: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. alluvium: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. alluvium: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. alluvium: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alluvium: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alluvium: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
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  5. alluvium: Natural History Terms

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alluvium: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. alluvium: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

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