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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
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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As if taunting the heavens, local Sacramento politicians have insanely allowed developers to construct thousands of residences on the bottomlands of flood plains.
Over the years much of these "big woods" of legend have been reduced to the not-so-big as accessible timber fell to the sawyers and bottomlands were cleared and plowed for rice and soybean fields.
By the second decade of the new century, Anglo planters and filibusters were already eyeing the rich river bottomlands of the Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, and Red Rivers.
 
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