mudflat

See also: mudflats

English

Alternative forms

• mud flat, mud-flat

Etymology

From mud +‎ flat.

Noun

mudflat (plural mudflats)

Mudflat

1. A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:

     The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.

Hyponyms

• flat

Translations

flat expanse of mud, esp. tidal flat

• Catalan: plana de marea fangosa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淤泥灘／淤泥滩 (yūnítān)

• Czech: přílivová oblast f
• Dutch: wad (nl) n
• Finnish: rantahetteikkö, vatti (fi)
• French: sèche (fr) f
• German: Wattenmeer (de) n
• Hungarian: iszapos lapály
• Irish: réileán láibe m
• Italian: barena (it) f
• Korean: 갯벌 (gaetbeol), 개펄 (gaepeol)
• Maori: taikoraha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mudderflate m or f

  Nynorsk: mudderflate f

• Portuguese: alagadiço (pt) m
• Spanish: llanura de marea f
• Vietnamese: bãi bùn

References

• “mudflat, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2003.