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silts

noun , plural of silt

Synonyms and Antonyms of silts

soil made chiefly of loose sedimentary material that is carried by flowing water and that sinks to the bottom of a river, pond, etc.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of silts

alluviums (or alluvia), colluvia (or colluviums), detritus, loesses, marls, sediments, shingles

clods, dirt, earth, ground, molds

blacklands, clays, gaults [chiefly British], gleys, gucks (or gooks), gumbos, kaolins, muck, muds

dust, gravels, sands

humuses, loams, topsoils

subsoils, substrata

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