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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne