Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bottom , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun low-lying alluvial land near a river.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Flat land along a
river , lying few feet above normalhigh water , often consisting ofalluvial deposits and naturallyfertile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-lying alluvial land near a river
Etymologies
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Examples
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And a lot of the best farmland is often bottomland, and it's called bottomland for a reason, because that's where the natural reservoirs were where rivers would overflow and sit there and deposit silt, very fertile land.
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... kill all those weeds on the bottomland, that is.
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Anchored by three dynamic narratives of Southerners who fled the "bottomland" to make their way North or West in pursuit of the American dream, Wilkerson is able to chart the differences of the treks depending on decade, city of origin and ultimate destination.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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Anchored by three dynamic narratives of Southerners who fled the "bottomland" to make their way North or West in pursuit of the American dream, Wilkerson is able to chart the differences of the treks depending on decade, city of origin and ultimate destination.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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Located in an area pockmarked by coalmines and drained for farming, it is one of the Midwest's few remaining stretches of bottomland hardwood forest.
Carol Polsgrove: A Big Road Through a Little Refuge: I-69 Threatens Endangered Species Carol Polsgrove 2010
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This was well before GPS and in that bottomland, everything looks the same --- few landmarks.
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Somehow, the editorial board of the Virginian Pilot decided to dedicate a whole editorial to HB2310 about filled subaqueous bottomland.
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This was well before GPS and in that bottomland, everything looks the same --- few landmarks.
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I also drove along the edge of the flat bottomland where the bridge would be.
Carol Polsgrove: Indiana Farmers Fear a Cost-Cutting Plan to Carry I-69 Across a Floodplain on a Causeway Carol Polsgrove 2010
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Located in an area pockmarked by coalmines and drained for farming, it is one of the Midwest's few remaining stretches of bottomland hardwood forest.
Carol Polsgrove: A Big Road Through a Little Refuge: I-69 Threatens Endangered Species Carol Polsgrove 2010
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