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alluvion
Overview of noun alluvion
The noun alluvion has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. alluvion -- (gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment)
2. flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion -- (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations")
3. alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion -- (clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alluvion
3 senses of alluvion
Sense 1
alluvion
=> geological process, geologic process
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
=> geological phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
=> sediment, deposit
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun alluvion
2 of 3 senses of alluvion
Sense 2
flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
=> debacle
=> flash flood, flashflood
=> Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
=> placer
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alluvion
3 senses of alluvion
Sense 1
alluvion
=> geological process, geologic process
Sense 2
flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
=> geological phenomenon
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
=> sediment, deposit
Antonyms of noun alluvion
Member Holonyms of noun alluvion
Substance Holonyms of noun alluvion
Part Holonyms of noun alluvion
Member Meronyms of noun alluvion
Substance Meronyms of noun alluvion
1 of 3 senses of alluvion
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
HAS SUBSTANCE: alluvial soil
Part Meronyms of noun alluvion
Meronyms of noun alluvion
1 of 3 senses of alluvion
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
HAS SUBSTANCE: alluvial soil
Holonyms of noun alluvion
Attributes of noun alluvion
Derived Forms of noun alluvion
Domain of noun alluvion
Domain Terms of noun alluvion
Familiarity of noun alluvion
alluvion used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun alluvion
3 senses of alluvion
Sense 1
alluvion
> geological process, geologic process
=> alluvion
=> desertification
=> diastrophism
=> erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing, wearing away
=> fold, folding
=> glaciation
=> intrusion
=> metamorphism
=> orogeny
=> stratification
=> subduction
Sense 2
flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
> geological phenomenon
=> earthquake, quake, temblor, seism
=> endogeny
=> alluvial fan, alluvial cone
=> catastrophe, cataclysm
=> continental drift
=> deposit, sedimentation, alluviation
=> flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
=> frost heave, frost heaving
=> transgression
=> volcanism
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
> sediment, deposit
=> alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
=> dregs, grounds, settlings
=> lees
=> salt lick, lick
=> evaporite
Meronyms of noun alluvion
3 senses of alluvion
Sense 3
alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion
HAS SUBSTANCE: alluvial soil
Holonyms of noun alluvion
Grep of noun alluvion
alluvion
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