mudflat
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈmʌdˌflæt/
- The tide receded, exposing a vast mudflat where seabirds searched for food.
- mudflat and mangrove
- shallow mudflats
- crabs on a mudflat
Examples
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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
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4.1
A flat area of mud near the coast that is underwater at high tide and dry at low tide
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7.3
Land near the sea that the tide covers and uncovers
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9.9
A strip of sand or mud along a riverbank that appears when the water is low
How Muddy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mudflat is made from two simple words, mud and flat, and it literally means a 'flat area of mud' near the sea or a river that appears at low tide.