a. rare. [f. L. alluvi-um + -AN. Cf. mod.Fr. alluvien.] = ALLUVIAL.

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1794.  Sullivan, View Nat., I. 493. Alluvian mountains, as they are denominated, are evidently of posterior formation.

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1866.  J. Rose, Virgil Ecl. & Georg., 81. Such the alluvian mud by mountain rills Deposited o’er valleys from the hills.

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