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n. (flood plain English)
Usage examples of "flood plains".
For all that, it was a pleasant journey crossing the flood plains between the Great Rivers.
Four men had lain beside the trail at the point where the causeway across the flood plains joined the main forest on the higher ground.
Then they emerged onto broad shallow stretches, the flow broken by islands and sandbanks and bordered by wide flood plains on which grazed herds of wild buffalo, massive indolent seeming beasts, black as hell and crusted with dried mud, great bossed horns drooping mournfully over their trumpet-shaped ears, standing belly-deep in the flood plains, lifting their black drooling muzzles in comical curiosity to watch them pass.
From its bed and from the alluvial gravels of the flood plains along its course, a small colony of diamond diggers had for years been gleaning the odd sparkling stone.
But on its south bank -- here, for example -- there are flood plains where the vegetation grows a little more thickly.
Those mountains are in proximity to gentle lowlands with rivers, flood plains, and deserts suitable for irrigation agriculture.
His army had now left the flood plains of Khuzistan province, and had entered the narrow strip of lowlands bordering the Persian Gulf.
Kaethans Templars were all split up to guard the Haulers as they deployed into the flood plains that the Witch River fed and fertilized.
Kaethan's Templars were all split up to guard the Haulers as they deployed into the flood plains that the Witch River fed and fertilized.
Her balloon ship drifted over valleys kilometers wide and thousands of kilometers in length, unlikely Amazons complete with flood plains, deltas, meanders, and bars, here on a world where no liquid water could have flowed for billions of years—.
The erosion from this process should long ago have worn down any features of prominence, and things like cracks, river beds, flood plains, and runoff channels would be completely obliterated by the volume of sand produced.
He could tell where the flood plains were and he realized that the Keldara homes were drawn well up above them.