river bottom
Beneath flowing water
River bottom is the land along a river, especially the low-lying fertile floodplain.
In American usage, it often refers to agricultural land in river valleys: They farmed forty acres of river bottom.
The term can also mean the actual floor of a riverbed beneath the water.
- gravelLoose small rock fragments
- pebblesSmall water-smoothed stones
- mudWet soil mixture
- mud flatsCoastal sediment exposed tidally
- creek bedFloor of small waterway
benthos · bed · cobble · sand · detritus · scour · catfish · silt · substrate · flood plain · alluvium · crayfish · sediment · shallows · roots · bedrock · clay · murky
- depthsabyss, deep, chasm, fathomless, depth
- lowlandslowland, bottomland, flatland, flats, plain
- riverbedstream bed, creek bed, substrate, bedrock, gravel bars
- underwaterunderwater, submerged, immersed, sea bed, seabed
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- rural landscapemeadow, pasture, farmland, grazing land, hay field
vertical position in water
river bottomwater surface
Liquid's exposed face
surface · water's edge · waterline · river bank · riverbank
river geography features
river bottomriverbank
Land bordering a stream
river bank · bank · shoreline · riverside · embankment
river, bottom, derive, bottomless, rivulet, riverbed, bottommost, riverine, riverbeds