colluvium

Meaning of colluvium

noun

material which accumulates at the foot of a steep slope.

early 20th century: from Latin colluvies ‘confluence of matter’, from colluere ‘to rinse’, from col- ‘together’ + luere ‘to wash’.

Information about colluvium

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of colluvium is: colluviums.
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Hyphenation of colluvium

col-lu-vium

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • colluvium is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with colluvium

avium, patavium, mendelevium, bivium, conditivium, lixivium, quadrivium, trivium, kurchatovium, ovium, synovium, Sesuvium, alluvium, compluvium, defluvium, diluvium, effluvium, eluvium, exuvium, illuvium, impluvium, pediluvium, profluvium

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