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- noun Coastal
wetlands that form whenmud is deposited by the tides or rivers, sea, and oceans.
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Examples
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Historically speaking, the term "mudflat" was used to describe areas we now refer to as estuaries.
Kitsap Sun Stories 2010
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Historically speaking, the term "mudflat" was used to describe areas we now refer to as estuaries.
Kitsap Sun Stories 2010
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I could try to swim the river, but the opposite bank was steep and clay-sided and devoid of any trees along the mudflat.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I could try to swim the river, but the opposite bank was steep and clay-sided and devoid of any trees along the mudflat.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Buried in the mudflat down Bayou Teche from me were the remains of a Confederate gunboat.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Buried in the mudflat down Bayou Teche from me were the remains of a Confederate gunboat.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Scene: A mudflat in really olden times, someplace like Phoenicia or Assyria, one of those places everybody's heard of but nobody can find.
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But that was exactly what I did, running through the shallows, splashing up onto the mudflat to a high place among the trees where I could look out on the slope that led into the watershed.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Ned is writing on the mudflat with a pointed stick when Johannes enters, a scroll under his arm.
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Squatting above the slow current, I counted three species of heron hunched on the mudflat of the far bank.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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