mudbank
English
Etymology
mud + bank
Noun
mudbank (plural mudbanks)
- An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.
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Derived terms
- mudbank crowngrass (Paspalum dissectum)
- mudbank paspalum (Paspalum dissectum)
References
- mudbank at OneLook Dictionary Search