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| a fan-shaped alluvial deposit formed by a stream where its velocity is abruptly decreased, as at the mouth of a ravine or at the foot of a mountain. |
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| produced by or found in a river |
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| formed at the bottom or along the shore of lakes |
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| egion so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all |
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| tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation |
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| usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river. |
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| an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore. |
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