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alluvion   (TTS Sound)

The noun alluvion has 3 senses

• alluvion -- (gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment)


• flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion -- (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations")


• alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion -- (clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down)