noun.
Flat land along a river, lying few feet above normal high water, often consisting of alluvialdeposits 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."