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Flood plain   /fləd pleɪn/   Listen
Flood plain

noun
1.
A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding.  Synonym: floodplain.






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"Flood plain" Quotes from Famous Books



... was able to erect such effective control structures as today, populations who had lived along "flashy" watercourses long enough to learn their habits tended to build their more valuable structures back away from the parts of the flood plain that got wet most often, leaving those parts for cropland and timber, or sometimes for shacktown, promenades, and parks. Thus long-settled countries and regions have often developed through trial and error a degree of what is now called "passive flood protection," which ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior



Words linked to "Flood plain" :   plain, field, champaign, floodplain



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