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# floodplain

«floodplain» in Mova's school dictionary: **the flat land beside a river that gets covered with water…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a floodplain, floodplains; also flood plain)

### meaning for a pupil

A floodplain is the flat land beside a river that gets covered with water when the river floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons floodplains are part of a river's course; their soil is fertile because floods leave mud (silt), so they are good for farming but risky for houses. Phrases: «on the floodplain», «build on a floodplain».

### examples

- The farm lies on the river's floodplain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#x1)
- Floods leave rich soil on the floodplain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#x2)
- Building houses on a floodplain is risky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#x3)
- The floodplain was under water after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#x4)
- Label the floodplain on your river diagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#x5)
- Cows graze on the floodplain in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/#x6)

### note

Countable. Written as one word or two: floodplain / flood plain. Safety: never walk or drive through floodwater.

### In the corpora

- [A floodplain is the flat land beside a river that is covered with water when the river floods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «floodplain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floodplain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.