floodplain

See also: flood plain

English

Etymology

flood +‎ plain

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: flood‧plain

Noun

floodplain (plural floodplains)

1. (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