al‧lu‧vi‧al/əˈluːviəl/ adjective[USUALLY BEFORE NOUN] technical made of soil left by rivers, lakes, floods etc: ▪ alluvial flood plains
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN soil ▪ MAREUIL-SUR-Af: Belemnite chalk on the slopes beneath Mutigny, alluvialsoil approaching Mareuil-sur-Aÿ itself. ▪ He loved the smell of the woods, and the damp alluvialsoil that covered these mountains like a blanket. ▪ Saline alluvialsoils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident. ▪ Mineral alluvialsoils have an A horizon and the effects of gleying can be present. ▪ The alluvialsoil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer. ▪ Peaty alluvialsoils characteristically have an O horizon which usually occurs at the surface but can be interbedded with freshwater alluvial sediments. ▪ Altdorf is sited on alluvialsoil where the Schachen side valley enters the Reuss valley from the east. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an alluvial plain EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Carrying alluvial sands from the Rocky Mountains, they helped make the plains. ▪ He loved the smell of the woods, and the damp alluvial soil that covered these mountains like a blanket. ▪ MAREUIL-SUR-Af: Belemnite chalk on the slopes beneath Mutigny, alluvial soil approaching Mareuil-sur-Aÿ itself. ▪ Mineral alluvial soils have an A horizon and the effects of gleying can be present. ▪ Much of this development has involved sugar-cane cultivation on sloping terrain in contrast to its confinement to flat alluvial areas prior to 1960. ▪ Saline alluvial soils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident. ▪ The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer. ▪ The walls were mostly slate, apparently quite normal, grained rock produced by a perfectly standard physical process of alluvial deposition.
al‧lu‧vi‧al/əˈluːviəl/ adjective [USUALLY BEFORE NOUN] technical 