mudflat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a broad, level area of mud beside a sea, estuary, or river, often exposed at low tide

   Wading birds searched the mudflat for worms as the tide receded.

A compound of mud + flat, recorded as both mud flat and mudflat. It names level sediment deposited beside tidal or slow-moving water and regularly exposed as water levels fall.

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