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mud flat

n.
Low-lying muddy land that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide.
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mud flat

n
1. (Physical Geography) a tract of low muddy land, esp near an estuary, that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
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mud′ flat`


n.
a mud-covered, gently sloping tract of land alternately covered and left bare by tidal waters.
[1805–15]
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Noun1.mud flat - a tract of low muddy land near an estuarymud flat - a tract of low muddy land near an estuary; covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel - an extended area of land
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mud flat

n → distesa fangosa
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And when the Reindeer was high and proud on the water once more, we dashed away with the breeze on our quarter, and at the last possible moment crossed the mud flats and entered the slough.
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The incoming tide glistened oilily as it rolled over the mud flats. She rose and shivered.
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TO AVOID SCRAMBLING UP THE STEEP, MUDDY BANK, I WALKED DOWN TO WHERE THE SMALL CREEK SPILLED INTO A MUD FLAT. AS I WALKED ACROSS THE FANNED SAND AND MUD THE GROUND QUIVERED LIKE JELLY.
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From 1993 to 1999, the authors made annual trips to the Mud Flat Road in Owyhee County, Idaho, and identified 57 species of butterflies along the Idaho portion of that route.
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Initial paleoecological and sedimentological evidence suggest a nonturbulent, low energy, marine, mud flat environment.
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I chose four habitat types within Middle Marsh as experimental sites: (1) a shallow subtidal shell bottom adjacent to an oyster reef ("oyster rock"), (2) a shallow subtidal seagrass bed dominated by Zostera marina, (3) an unvegetated intertidal mud flat, and (4) an unvegetated intertidal sand flat (Fig.
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