Low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river. 低洼地,滩地与河流邻接的低洼冲积地带
Bangkok is surrounded by a vast, damp, alluvial plain, crisscrossed by a network of klong. 曼谷为一个广阔潮湿的冲积平原所环绕,有纵横交错的运河网。
alluvial : 冲击的。
alluvial
[ adj ] of or relating to alluvium <adj.pert>
Alluvial \Al*lu"vi*al\, n. Alluvial soil; specif., in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Alluvial \Al*lu"vi*al\, a. [Cf. F. alluvial. See {Alluvion}.] Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
In rugged bush 55 miles northeast of Harare, the capital, hundreds of panners carry alluvial sand to the water's edge from a maze of unpropped shafts recklessly burrowed 50 feet or more into the bank of the Nyaguwe River.
The peninsula comes off the vast southeastern alluvial plain with fields of rice and cotton and sorghum as far as the eye can see.
But most of that "placer" and "alluvial" gold was gone by about 1950.