floodplain

See also: flood plain

English

Etymology

flood +‎ plain

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: flood‧plain

Noun

floodplain (plural floodplains)

1. (geography) An alluvial plain that may or may not experience occasional or periodic flooding.

Translations

a plain formed by the deposition of flooding

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河漫灘／河漫滩 (hémàntān), 河漫滩 (hémàntān)

• Danish: flodslette c
• Finnish: tulvatasanko
• Galician: varcia f
• Georgian: ჭალა (č̣ala)
• German: Flussaue f, Aue (de) f, Au (de) f
• Hungarian: ártér (hu)
• Japanese: はんらん源 (hanrangen)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flomslette m or f

• Portuguese: várzea (pt) f, vargem f
• Russian: по́йма (ru) f (pójma)
• Spanish: terreno inundable m, llanura aluvial inundable f, vega inundable f
• Tagalog: kapatagang-bahaan

See also

• alluvial plain