mudflat
nounEtymology From mud + flat.
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 Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
- Hyponyms
- flat