Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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alluvion | Yes | No | No | No |
Noah's flood | Yes | No | No | No |
alluvion (noun) | Noah's flood (noun) |
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clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings |
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | |
gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment |