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Meanings of floodplain 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 "flood plain"
Examples for "flood plain"
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Sometimes there is a narrow flood plain between the water and the wall.
Canyons of the Colorado
2
It is a well defined flood plain from an engineering standpoint.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
3
Hookina's flood plain is littered with gum trees torn up by raging waters.
Reuters
4
But I had to get somewhere away from the flood plain.
The Guardian
5
The flood plain of the Rhine from Strasbourg to Mainz is flat and very wide.
The Irish Times
Usage of floodplain in English
1
We illustrate these challenges with data from the Elbe River floodplain, Germany.
Pubmed
2
Here on the boggy floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
The system of the world
3
Such losses suggest something is awry, floodplain managers and researchers said.
Reuters
4
She saw several people on the flat floodplain across The River.
The Shelters of Stone
5
Dull and gray above the floodplain along the east shore of the river.
No country for old men
6
She was on a broad mud flat, perhaps a raised floodplain.
Assail
7
Camels, tapirs, native horses, and Columbian mammoths once foraged on its green floodplain.
The world without us
8
Certainly not all of this exodus came from the floodplain of the Mississippi River.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
9
The River runs through the middle of a large grassy field there, the floodplain.
The Shelters of Stone
10
Another rainstorm like the last one, and this whole floodplain will be under water.
The Plains of Passage
11
The stream meandered, cutting deeply into its floodplain at times, but ever turned westward.
Return of the Crimson Guard
12
A river, broad, deep and entrenched into its valley, looped across a green floodplain.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
13
That's what we call the shape made by the floodplain.
Apocalypse of the Dead
14
Along the edges of the floodplain, dogs and cats were tangled in the trees.
Fugitive pieces
15
The floodplain out there broad and quiet in the moonlight.
No country for old men
16
He studied the blue floodplain out there in the silence.
No country for old men
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