Noun:

नदी मुख-भूमी, नदी का दहाना, डेल्टा,

delta's Usage Examples:

north of Ravenna, so that if these two arms be included, the delta of the Po extends about 36 m.

Near the tolbooth stands the market cross, a stone column with a unicorn on the top supporting the burgh arms. At the west end of High Street is a statue of David Macbeth Moir ("Delta," 1798-1851), Musselburgh's most famous son.

In front of the delta are sandbanks and rocks which prevent the passage of vessels except by a canal, 18 m.

That there might also be a waterway between Alexandria and the Red Sea, they cut a canal between the Delta and the northern Arsinoe.

The delta soil is typically a heavy, black, alluvial clay, very fertile, but difficult to work; admixture of sand is beneficial, and the localities where this occurs yield the best cotton.

Besides the delta of the Po and the large marshy tracts which it forms, there exist on both sides of it extensive lagoons of salt water, generally separated from the Adriatic by narrow strips of sand or embankments, partly natural and partly artificial, but havin openings which admit the influx and efflux of the sea-water, and serve as ports for communication with the mainland.

Deposits of the Tertiary period form the basis of more than half the state, extending from the border of the Cretaceous westward nearly to the Yazoo Delta and the Mississippi Bottom, and southward to within a few miles of the Gulf coast.

The Senegal indeed has what is styled an interior delta, but, with the exception of the marigot named, all the divergent branches rejoin the main stream before the sea is reached.

The most fertile soil is the alluvium of the' Delta, deposited during the overflows of the Mississippi.

The delta arms sometimes remain blocked with ice the whole year round.

Synonyms:

alluvial deposit, formation, alluvium, alluvion, geological formation, alluvial sediment,

Antonyms:

head, rear, finish, natural elevation, natural depression,