Usually means: Deposited by water, like sediment.
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  1. alluvial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alluvial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alluvial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alluvial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alluvial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alluvial, alluvial: Wordnik
  7. alluvial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alluvial: Wiktionary
  9. alluvial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alluvial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alluvial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alluvial: Dictionary.com
  13. Alluvial (horse), Alluvial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Alluvial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. alluvial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. alluvial: Rhymezone
  17. Alluvial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. alluvial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. alluvial: Free Dictionary
  20. alluvial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. alluvial: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. alluvial: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. alluvial: Financial dictionary

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  1. alluvial: Encyclopedia

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  1. alluvial: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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adjective:  Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.
noun:  (countable) A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.
noun:  Alluvial soil; specifically, in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil.

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