mudflat

See also: mudflats

English

Alternative forms

• mud flat, mud-flat

Etymology

From mud +‎ flat

Noun

mudflat (plural mudflats)

1. A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a river bed exposed at low tide.

Hyponyms

• flat

Translations

flat expanse of mud, esp. tidal flat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淤泥灘／淤泥滩, 淤泥滩 (yūnítān)

• Dutch: wad (nl) n
• Finnish: rantahetteikkö, vatti (fi)
• French: sèche (fr) f
• German: Wattenmeer (de) n
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• Italian: barena (it) f
• Maori: taikoraha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mudderflate m or f

  Nynorsk: mudderflate f

References

• “mudflat, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2003.