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bottomland

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bot·tom·land  (btm-lnd)
n.
See bottom.
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Noun1.bottomlandbottomland - low-lying alluvial land near a river
bottom
land, soil, ground - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"


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Overweight children would not be the first thing a visitor to Grafton, West Virginia, would think of when seeing the small farms that cling to steep hillsides and cultivate the bottomland along the Tygart River as one drives into town.
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The landscape is characterized by bottomland and upland forests, wetlands, open water and old pastures.
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And like Katrina, it is those on the bottomland below the sea-level of poverty who are most displaced.
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