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noun
a mud-covered, gently sloping tract of land, alternately covered and left bare by tidal waters.
the muddy, nearly level bed of a dry lake.
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Origin of mud flat
First recorded in 1805–15
Words nearby mud flat
Mudéjar,
mudeye,
mudfat,
mud fever,
mudfish,
mud flat,
mudflow,
mud gecko,
mudguard,
mud hen,
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How to use mud flat in a sentence
One camera was adapted to film out on mud flats in very difficult terrain.
High tide is the best time to paddle here, since Thomason Island is surrounded by mud flats at low tide.
Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day.
There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.
He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
The program—weirdly—is now under the umbrella of ABC News, and is suffering from flat ratings and an aging demographic.
Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.
Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.
Instead of writing slander and flat blasphemy, they propose to draw it, and not draw it mild.
There is no other way but fresh blood for it is sheer human nature to feel flat after an effort.
British Dictionary definitions for mud flat
noun
a tract of low muddy land, esp near an estuary, that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
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Scientific definitions for mud flat
Low-lying land consisting of silt or sand that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide.
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