bottomland

NOUN
  1. low-lying alluvial land near a river
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How To Use bottomland In A Sentence

  • Somehow, the editorial board of the Virginian Pilot decided to dedicate a whole editorial to HB2310 about filled subaqueous bottomland. Virginian-Pilot: News and Editorial collusion
  • Bottomland hardwood swamp is a name commonly given to forested swamps in the south central United States.
  • The gorge slowly widens northward to reveal river benches, flood plains, and broadening bottomland, most of which are now artificially flooded.
  • The measured soil parameters at the sites were within the normal range for bottomland hardwood soils of Mississippi River alluvium.
  • You experience the ancient landscape with its indigenous plant communities like blue bells in the bottomland; and purple joe pye weed, bladder nut, and golden alexander under the oak canopy.
  • River swamp forests of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) and oak-dominated bottomland hardwood forests provide important wildlife corridors and habitat. Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)
  • My grandparents owned a small farm, whittled down over the years to about 40 acres of bottomland, in some of the most productive agricultural land in America.
  • We measured the area of each spot-mapping plot that was ridge, bottomland, and midslope to determine the proportion available for each.
  • Bottomland hardwood forests and remnants of swamp forests can be found near the flood control reservoirs.
  • But some say thousands and thousands of Louisiana black bear once roamed the rich forested bottomland of eastern Texas, Louisiana, and southern Mississippi.
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