Bottomland is an English word with synonyms like bottom or land. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bottomland meaning
Flat land along a river, lying a few feet above normal high water, naturally fertile, and often consisting of alluvial deposits.
Using Bottomland
- The main meaning on this page is: Flat land along a river, lying a few feet above normal high water, naturally fertile, and often consisting of alluvial deposits.
- Useful related words include: bottom, land, ground, soil.
Context around Bottomland
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bottomland
- In this selection, "bottomland" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, riverside, fertile, growth, forest, meadow and hardwood stand out and add context to how "bottomland" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include deep fertile bottomland and hilly and of a bottomland meadow. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bottomland" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bottomland
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One assignment that really made my heart thump was hauling hay out of a bottomland meadow. (16 words)
The stone mill is surrounded by bottomland forest, which is very precious, as little remains in Europe. (17 words)
This convert park protects the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the United States. (19 words)
Pawpaws are native to 26 states of the U.S. and to Ontario in Canada. citation citation The common pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and hilly upland habitat. (38 words)
We had moved to a lovely but more-than-a-little-spooky-at-night piece of riverside bottomland in Chamberlain. (20 words)
This convert park protects the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the United States. (19 words)
Example sentences (5)
The stone mill is surrounded by bottomland forest, which is very precious, as little remains in Europe.
We had moved to a lovely but more-than-a-little-spooky-at-night piece of riverside bottomland in Chamberlain.
One assignment that really made my heart thump was hauling hay out of a bottomland meadow.
Pawpaws are native to 26 states of the U.S. and to Ontario in Canada. citation citation The common pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and hilly upland habitat.
This convert park protects the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the United States.