chenier

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An area of scrub oak growing in an accumulation of alluvial soil in a stream, creek, bayou, marsh or river.
2. noun A beach ridge consisting of sand or crushed shells raised above mudflats forming part of a strand plain.

Similar words

coulee vlei levee letch lever washland wurley slough marshland wetland

Often followed by

and plain was is had in to cell ridges

Word family

André-Marie de Chénier Chenier