Flood plain
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of floodplain. alt-of, alternative
"It must have been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood plain of the River Welland on the border of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s."
- 2 a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding wordnet
Example
More examples"It must have been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood plain of the River Welland on the border of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s."