[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alluvium \allu"vium\, n.; pl. e. alluviums, l. alluvia.
   l., neut. of alluvius. see alluvious. geol.
   deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported
   matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land
   not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or
   seas. --lyell.
   1913 webster
see also:
alluviums alluvia alluvious 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

alluvium
     n : clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and
         deposited where the stream slows down syn: alluvial
         sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvion
     also: alluvia pl
see also:
alluvial sediment alluvial deposit alluvion alluvia 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

84 moby thesaurus words for "alluvium":
   acres, alluvion, arable land, ash, cataclysm, cinder, clay,
   clinker, clod, crust, debris, deluge, deposit, deposition,
   deposits, detritus, diluvium, dirt, draff, dregs, drift, dross,
   dry land, dust, earth, ember, engulfment, feces, flood, freehold,
   froth, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, inundation, land,
   landholdings, lees, lithosphere, loess, marginal land, marl, mold,
   moraine, offscum, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, precipitate,
   precipitation, real estate, real property, region, regolith,
   scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut,
   sod, soil, soot, spill, spillage, subaerial deposit, sublimate,
   submersion, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory,
   the deluge, the flood, the country, topsoil, washout, whelming,
   woodland

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