alluvion
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
Types & categories
- geological process hypernym
Sense 2 noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
plains fertilized by annual inundations
Types & categories
- geological phenomenon hypernym
- debacle hyponym
- flash flood hyponym
- Noah's flood hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- alluvial soil substance meronym
Related & opposite
- alluvial derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | geological process |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inundate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | geological phenomenon |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | debacle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | flash flood |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Noah's flood |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | alluvial |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | alluvial soil |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sediment |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | delta |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | placer |