ravinement
/rəˈviːnm(ə)nt/Physical Geography
noun
An irregularity or break in the layering of river or shallow marine sediments caused by interruption of deposition by erosion; a period of such erosion.
Origin
Mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From ravine + -ment, in sense 1 perhaps after French ravinement erosion of ravines or gullies.
- polychrest
- polychroic
- polychromasia
- polychromatic
- polychromatic normoblast
- polychromatise
- polychromatism
- polychromatize
- polychromatophil
- polychromatophile
- polychromatophilia
- polychromatophilic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- polychromism
- polychromist
- stick in one's throat (or craw)
- stick insect
- stick-in-the-mud
- stick it to
- stickleback
- stickler
- sticklike
- stick-nest rat
- stick one (or it) on