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- noun Plural form of
bottomland .
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Examples
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But the dam spelled the end of the world for the tribes who had called the bottomlands home.
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Forested wetlands, such as bottomlands forests, are undergoing rapid reduction in area and alteration of composition.
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Located in the "bottomlands" across Perimeter Road from Death Valley, the farm is a place where agriculture students learn to grow crops with minimal impact on the environment - something called sustainable agriculture.
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In bottomlands of grey a boulder feels a puddle into existence.
Sleep Music, No. 1 Jonathan Ashworth 2011
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That way of living continued until the 1950s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built giant dams along the Missouri and inundated the rich bottomlands.
Stephanie Woodard: Buffalo Gardeners: Standing Rock Sioux Harvest Bison, Garden to Restore Health Stephanie Woodard 2011
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It was the most expensive machine in the county, yet he did not care to flaunt its price or horse-power in a red flare across the landscape, which also was mostly his, from the sand dunes and the everlasting beat of the Pacific breakers, across the fat bottomlands and upland pastures, to the far summits clad with redwood forest and wreathed in fog and cloud.
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That way of living continued until the 1950s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built giant dams along the Missouri and inundated the rich bottomlands.
Stephanie Woodard: Buffalo Gardeners: Standing Rock Sioux Harvest Bison, Garden to Restore Health Stephanie Woodard 2011
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That way of living continued until the 1950s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built giant dams along the Missouri and inundated the rich bottomlands.
Stephanie Woodard: Buffalo Gardeners: Standing Rock Sioux Harvest Bison, Garden to Restore Health Stephanie Woodard 2011
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Named for the light-blue tint of their claws, the crabs have thick shells and 10 legs, allowing them to swim and scuttle across bottomlands.
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Consider the Kickapoo State Recreation Area, an area today of wooded hills and riparian bottomlands off the Middle Fork of the Vermillion River in eastern Illinois, and the historic place of the birth of commercial strip mining of coal in the United States in the 1850s.
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