mudflat

See also: mudflats

English

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mudflat

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Alternative forms

• mud flat, mud-flat

Etymology

From mud +‎ flat.

Noun

mudflat (plural mudflats)

1. 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

• flat

Translations

flat expanse of mud, esp. tidal flat

Catalan: plana de marea fangosa f Chinese: Mandarin: 淤泥灘 / 淤泥滩 (yūnítān) Czech: přílivová oblast f Dutch: wad (nl) n Finnish: rantahetteikkö, vatti (fi) French: sèche (fr) f German: Wattenmeer (de) n Hungarian: iszapos lapály Irish: réileán láibe m Italian: barena (it) f Korean: 갯벌 (gaetbeol), 개펄 (gaepeol) Maori: taikoraha Norwegian: Bokmål: mudderflate m or f Nynorsk: mudderflate f Portuguese: alagadiço (pt) m Spanish: llanura de marea f Vietnamese: bãi bùn

References

• “mudflat, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.