Associations to the word «Alluvium»

Wiktionary

ALLUVIUM, noun. Soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

Dictionary definition

ALLUVIUM, noun. Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke