Definition of "floodplains" [floodplains]

• Plural form of floodplain. (noun)

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• "How about the Army Corps of Engineers, with their patented program of working with developers to get people to put expensive houses in floodplains and near hurricane threatened shores, plowing over saltmarshes and the like?"
• "Washington farmers living in floodplains, but not people threatened by mudslides."
• "Alongside stream channels are relatively flat areas known as floodplains (Figure 6)."