floodplain

IPA: fɫˈʌdpɫeɪn

(geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.

flood plain

IPA: fɫˈʌdpɫeɪn

Alternative spelling of floodplain [(geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.]

Twenty-sided stars, falling on the flood-plain like slices of sky.
Even in the Pacific Northwest, low-elevation and flood-plain older forests are extremely rare.
(Alternatively, the forest-owner would pay the flood-plain property owner not to sue for damages from floods.)
Found in the southern portion of the extensive flood-plain and delta system of the Karun, Dez, and other major rivers that rise in the northwest Zagros Mountains.
"We have two kinds of levees -- those that have failed and those that will," said Paul Osman, head of the flood-plain management program for the state of Illinois.
When I put my nose to the hole I smell the flood-plain of the canal after a hurricane and the spots of green grass where thousands of Irish have lain with a stink and a stink and a stinky-stick.
The imaginary river that fecundates the flood-plain in the brain-pan belongs to the simulacral Troy, parvam Troiam, that Andromache builds in the Aeneid, in captivity, after her city was destroyed.
Of Three Gorges Dam BEIJING -- China is expected to sign an agreement for a feasibility study on how to manage flood-plain risks downstream from the Three Gorges Dam, the latest move to address development pitfalls with the world's biggest hydropower project.