mudflat

A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.

Noun

  1. A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.
    • The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly. - 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The...

Origin

From mud + flat.

Forms

mudflats mud flat mud-flat

Hyponyms

flat