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natural levee
noun
- a deposit of sand or mud built up along, and sloping away from, either side of the flood plain of a river or stream.
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Each side of the channel is thus raised so as to form what is termed a natural levee.
From Project Gutenberg
A natural levee, eight and ten feet high, and studded with large tree-willows, rims in the island farm like the edge of a basin.
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