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Definition of Bottomlands
1. bottomland [n] - See also: bottomland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottomlands
Literary usage of Bottomlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. EcoRegions of Alaska by Alisa L. Gallant (1998)
"The 103000-knv ecoregion is composed of flat to nearly flat bottomlands along
larger rivers ... The bottomlands are dotted with thaw and oxbow lakes (fig. ..."
2. Some Facts and Figures about North Carolina and Her Natural Resources by North Carolina Geological survey, 1891-, North Carolina, 1891 Geological survey, Joseph Hyde Pratt (1917)
"Rich bottomlands, once the main dependence of the river farmer, are now worthless
through the filling up of the smaller streams, or because they have become ..."
3. Indian Issues: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's Additional Compensation for the by Charles W. Bausell, Jr. (1998)
"Well known to the planners of the Oahe Dam project was the fact that the Tribe
would not give up its Missouri River bottomlands without resistance and ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Rare breeder and apparently limited to the open, damp bottomlands of the mountains.
86. ... Rare breeder in the bottomlands of the mountains. ..."
5. Elements of Forestry by Nelson Courtlandt Brown, Frederick Franklin Moon (1914)
"The hardwoods grow along the streams and in the bottomlands and swamps in ...
In the bottomlands, overflowed a portion of the year, cypress sometimes grows ..."
6. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... pretty nigh all the cricks we got, and that floods the bottomlands, uv course,
and makes ma'shes and swamps, where they used to be fust-rate corn-land. ..."
7. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1897)
"The Minnesota river and the Mississippi river below the confluence of that stream,
with their bottomlands, occupy a valley enclosed by rock bluffs from a ..."
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