floodland
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A low-lying area, especially on either side of a river, which regularly floods.
- Important to the description of surface water and wetlands is the floodlands of rivers and streams. Floodlands are the wide, gently sloping areas contiguous to and usually lying on both sides of a river or stream channel.
- This is the reason why there are fewer amphibia in the annual otter's diet in the River Pripyat floodlands (where there are virtually no common frogs) as compared to other large river basins.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA