floodplain

See also: flood plain

English

Etymology

flood +‎ plain

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: flood‧plain

Noun

floodplain (plural floodplains)

(geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.

Alternative forms

flood plain

Derived terms

flood plain toadlet

Translations

a plain formed by the deposition of flooding

Catalan: plana d'inundació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 河漫灘／河漫滩 (hémàntān)
Danish: flodslette c
Finnish: tulvatasanko (fi)
Galician: varcia f
Georgian: ჭალა (č̣ala)
German: Flussaue f, Aue (de) f, Au (de) f, Überschemmungsgebiet n
Hungarian: ártér (hu)
Indonesian: dataran banjir
Japanese: はんらん源 (hanrangen)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flomslette m or f
Persian: دشت سیلابی (dašt-e seylâbi)
Portuguese: várzea (pt) f, vargem (pt) f
Romanian: luncă (ro) f
Russian: по́йма (ru) f (pójma)
Spanish: terreno inundable m, llanura aluvial inundable f, vega inundable f
Tagalog: bahaing kapatagan
Ukrainian: запла́ва f (zapláva)

See also

alluvial plain

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