mudflat

Examples

• All

• The region includes numerous swamps, mudflats, lakes, canals, ditches, and dikes.

  Academic text (2005)

• Major habitats of the Great Bay include open water, tidal creeks, mudflats, rocky shore, salt marsh, and uplands.

  Academic text (1998)

• The old man moved across the mudflats to the edge of the sea.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Near evening the next day, they set up the shanty on a mudflat at the edge of the sea.

  Fiction book (1992)

• As a crab moves about the mudflat, it keeps the same side of its body pointed toward its burrow.

  Academic text (2004)

• And so one morning I wandered onto the mudflat, found a crab colony, and lay down in the mud.

  Academic text (2004)

• So in hopes of further luck, I scavenged in the mudflats again.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Terry worked his way through the brush and back toward the exposed mudflats.

  Fiction book (1995)

• After about forty-five days, the juvenile fish returns to settle on the mudflat and begin its amphibious adult life.

  Academic text (2002)

• Prolonged daytime interruptions sometimes force the birds to seek other beaches or resort to feeding on mudflats or salt marshes.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

M

mud flat

vsmudflat

2 4.1

A flat area of mud near the coast that is underwater at high tide and dry at low tide

is the single-word form used in modern spelling for the same landform

T

tideland

vsmudflat

7.3

Land near the sea that the tide covers and uncovers

is the flat muddy form of that tidal area exposed at low tide

B

batture

vsmudflat

• Specialized

9.9

A strip of sand or mud along a riverbank that appears when the water is low

is a coastal flat muddy area exposed by tidal action rather than river deposits

How Muddy

mudflat

1 4.1

swamp

226 1.9

salt marsh

3 4.4

sandbar

• US

11 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology