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Meanings of flood plain in English

Portuguese
planície de inundação
Spanish
terreno inundable

A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding.

planície de inundação
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Examples for "floodplain"
Examples for "floodplain"
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We illustrate these challenges with data from the Elbe River floodplain, Germany.
Pubmed
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Here on the boggy floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
The system of the world
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Such losses suggest something is awry, floodplain managers and researchers said.
Reuters
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She saw several people on the flat floodplain across The River.
The Shelters of Stone
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Dull and gray above the floodplain along the east shore of the river.
No country for old men
Usage of flood plain in English
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Sometimes there is a narrow flood plain between the water and the wall.
Canyons of the Colorado
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It is a well defined flood plain from an engineering standpoint.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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Hookina's flood plain is littered with gum trees torn up by raging waters.
Reuters
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But I had to get somewhere away from the flood plain.
The Guardian
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The flood plain of the Rhine from Strasbourg to Mainz is flat and very wide.
The Irish Times
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We were never in the flood plain before, never really flooded … and then, bingo.
The Guardian
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Areas that already lie within an existing coastal flood plain would face even greater risk.
Reuters
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The plant is in a flood plain and had never removed its chemicals ahead of storms.
Reuters
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They watched the flood plain for some time.
The skein of lament
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But thirty miles above its mouth this canyon ends, and a narrow valley with a flood plain
Canyons of the Colorado
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Swamp and flood plain, cypress and cedar.
Jarka Ruus
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Carol Donovan, anther local said to add to the risks, the Tegel site was on a flood plain.
Radio NZ
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If you spend a lot of money on flood control, people build further out on the flood plain.
The new yorker
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It is a flood plain and therefore we need to keep as much of the green area as possible.
BBC
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In the coming months there is an urgent need to support livestock, flood plain recession and dry season agriculture.
The Guardian
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A map of a wide flood plain, such as that of the Mississippi or the Missouri (Fig.
The Elements of Geology
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