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水泛地,河滩地
noun
low-lying land along a watercourse—often used in plural
the fertile bottomlands
The first known use of bottomland was in 1612
bottomlandnoun
bottom entry 1 sense 6
1 Here's how At Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona, sheer cliffs plunge hundreds of feet to lush bottomlands lined with crops, pastures and cottonwood trees.
2 Paddle through the bottomlands and between bald cypress trees covered in Spanish moss over Big Cypress Bayou, or weave through one of the paddling trails across the lake.
3 Floodwaters from the Congaree and Wateree rivers regularly cover the park’s old-growth bottomland hardwood forest, and the upland pine forest depends on wildfires to clear out competing vegetation.
4 Black bears are found throughout Louisiana, with a majority of them in the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge—a 64,000-acre tract of hardwood bottomland in the Mississippi Delta.
5 Sugar maples often grow in rich, moist bottomlands in the wild.
6 Forests that grow on the floodplain are called floodplain forests, sometimes also called bottomland forests.
7 Instead of concentrating on refuting the Facebook misinformation, Naylor and Willey made the presentation an educational exercise about managing bottomland forests.
8 The property comprises one of the largest contiguous undeveloped acreage of bottomland hardwood wetlands remaining in the Great Dog River Watershed.
9 The torrential rain may flood the low-lying land out.
这场骤雨有可能把低洼地淹没。
10 The windmill in Netherlands already becomes an iconic structure and most of them situated along the edge of polders are actually wind pumps, designed to drain the land.
荷兰的风车已成为一种标志性构造,大多位于低洼地边缘建造的风车确实是风泵,目的是为了浇灌土地。