Difference between Fluvial and Alluvial

What is the difference between Fluvial and Alluvial?

Fluvial as an adjective is of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream while Alluvial as an adjective is pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.

Fluvial

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream

Alluvial

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.

We hope you now know whether to use Fluvial or Alluvial in your sentence.

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