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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats