Definition of "flood-plain" [flood-plain]

• A nearly level alluvial plain formed by deposition of land waste by graded or aggrading streams during times of flood. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Twenty-sided stars, falling on the flood-plain like slices of sky."
• "(Alternatively, the forest-owner would pay the flood-plain property owner not to sue for damages from floods.)"
• "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."