mudflat
See also: mudflats
English
Alternative forms
- mud flat, mud-flat
Noun
mudflat (plural mudflats)
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Mudflat
- A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
- The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.
Hyponyms
Translations
flat expanse of mud, esp. tidal flat
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References
- “mudflat, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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