NOUN
- a tract of low muddy land near an estuary; covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
How To Use mud flat In A Sentence
- His body was found yesterday morning by his son-in-law in an area of sandbanks and mud flats about a mile from the high water mark at Bardsea, near Ulverston.
- In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
- The mankind activity , such as aquaculture , salt industry , exerts an influence on the mud flat ecosystem.
- Discriminating between deposits of tidally influenced deltas and tide-dominated coastal mud flats in the rock record is often difficult.
- Many of the inhabitants of intertidal sand and mud flats also occur subtidally, where they are joined by tusk shells, awning clams, bittersweets, pen shells, and gastropods such as tons, helmets, harps, olives, volutes, cones and terebras.
- I've been to mud flats where there's a six-foot difference between high tide and low tide.
- In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
- Mud flats are alive with waders, including the rare terek sandpiper. Hurriyet Dailynews
- A dozen or more canoes were beached along the mud flats; some of them dug-out trees, others of a kind of basketwork covered in skins. The Complete Stories
- The boat beached on a mud flat.
