Thesaurus results for FLOODPLAIN

floodplain

noun

Definition of floodplain

as in basin

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as in grassland

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Recent Examples of floodplain The funding also includes more than $235,784 through FEMA’s Community Assistance Program – State Support Services Element to fund floodplain management practices. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026 There are also plans to build a wrought iron fence with masonry along Highway 10, and a wrought iron fence in the floodplain area. — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026 The machines are planned to meet with high precision beneath the river crossing before being dismantled at a depth of about 30 meters (98 feet), below the floodplain on the Yangtze’s north bank. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026 Walker was found within a floodplain area near Big Walnut Creek by members of a volunteer search team. — Susan Young, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for floodplain

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Noun

Since then, a growing movement across North America is attempting to transform ecological menaces into culinary commodities, from Florida to Hawai’i, British Columbia, Maine, and the Mississippi River basin.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Seventy-one percent of the water diverted from the lake’s basin is allocated to agriculture.

— Silvia Console Battilana, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of basin

Noun

Chiricahua is a combination of climates The new national park features varying environments, from a desert landscape and grasslands to deciduous forest and chaparral shrub land to coniferous forest habitats.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
The park spans roughly 12,000 acres of grasslands, desert scrub, riparian, and pine woodlands, which means there is a huge variety of wildlife and habitat types to see and explore.

— Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of grassland

Noun

When the sun goes down, the wind picks up in central New Mexico, whipping through arid canyons with a ghostly howl that for centuries, locals have likened to the wails of the folkloric ghost La Llorona.

— Sara Herschander, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026
There is a pleasant little trail from the test plot that goes through the canyon.

— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of canyon

Noun

In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
As with their neighbors to the south, residents of Canada’s western prairie and mountain provinces take pride in a pioneering spirit and rugged independence that have enabled them to prosper in often harsh terrain.

— the Monitor's Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of prairie

Noun

This includes street and alley resurfacings, sidewalk repairs, pothole repairs, and street safety improvements.

— Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Early use cases for individualized agents have included filing forms to have a pothole filled or messy telephone wires cleaned up, though these human response systems aren’t built to handle a massive uptick in requests.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of pothole

Noun

The fires created open, savannah-like forests that were easier to travel through and supported diverse flora and fauna.

— M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
While African savanna elephants are listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the southern African nation of Botswana has a large elephant population estimated at around 130,000, more than any other country.

— Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of savanna

Noun

Covering 3,652 acres along the Wabash River, the Wabashiki Fish and Wildlife Area stretches across prairies, bottomland forests, and wetlands restored from farmland in 2010.

— Brian Garrido, Midwest Living, 13 Aug. 2026
Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park conserves nearly 13,000 acres of rare hardwood bottomland along the Mississippi River, including eerie bald cypress swamp.

— CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 May 2026

Definition of bottomland

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