Usually means: Soil layer moved by water.
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  1. illuvium: Merriam-Webster
  2. illuvium: Collins English Dictionary
  3. illuvium: Wiktionary
  4. illuvium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. illuvium: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. illuvium: Dictionary.com
  7. Illuvium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. illuvium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (illuvium)

▸ noun:  (geology) material displaced across a soil profile, from one layer to another, by the action of rainwater

Similar:
alluvium, colluvium, proluvium, sullage, colluviation, warp, argilliturbation, displuviatum, silt, siltage, more...

Opposite:
alluvium, eluvium, sediment, soil, deposit

Types:
eluvium, colluvium, more...

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Similar:
alluvium, colluvium, proluvium, sullage, colluviation, warp, argilliturbation, displuviatum, silt, siltage, more...

Opposite:
alluvium, eluvium, sediment, soil, deposit

Types:
eluvium, colluvium, more...



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