Bottomland

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  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as bottom, 3.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. low-lying alluvial land near a river.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Flat land along a river, lying few feet above normal high water, often consisting of alluvial deposits and naturally fertile.
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  • noun. low-lying alluvial land near a river
  • Word Usage
    "And a lot of the best farmland is often bottomland, and it's called bottomland for a reason, because that's where the natural reservoirs were where rivers would overflow and sit there and deposit silt, very fertile land."
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