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单词 khadar
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khadarn.

Brit. /ˈkɑːdə/, U.S. /ˈkɑdər/, Indian English /ˈkhaːðər/
Forms: Also kadir, khádar, khaddar, khâder, khadir, and with capital K.
Etymology: Hindi.
India.
a. A flood-plain; land susceptible to flooding.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] > flooded
holm?c1050
wash-land1794
callow1823
khadar1828
flood-plain1873
flood-landa1881
berm1891
várzea1911
toich1948
1828 G. C. Mundy Pen & Pencil Sketches (1832) I. v. 269 The road continued partly along the khâder of the river.
1879 H. B. Medlicott & W. T. Blanford Man. Geol. India I. xvii. 404 The alluvial plain itself..is composed of bhángar, or high land..and khádar, or low land, the low plain through which each river flows.
1882 W. Theobald Mason's Burma I. 4 The delta..of the Ganges, the richest land of Lower Bengal, being composed of Khadir land.
1887 J. M. Brown Shikar Sketches 247 Pig-sticking in the Kadir, or old bed of the Ganges.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 98/2 Eastward of the khádar lies the sandy central tableland.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 202 The Cup given by the Meerut Tent Club is called the ‘Kadir Cup’, after the Kadir or river-bed country in which it is competed for.
1904 A. Knox Gloss. Geogr. & Topogr. Terms 193 Khadar (Hindi), low lands fit for rice-growing.
1929 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 526/2 There is more game and greater variety of game in a kadir country than in any other kind.
1955 J. C. Brown & A. K. Dey India's Mineral Wealth (ed. 3) xix. 691 In the Brahmaputra valley, and the whole of the Assam plain is one great khadar or strath.
b. Recently deposited alluvium.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > recent
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1919 D. N. Wadia Geol. India xxii. 251 The Khadar deposits are, as a rule, confined to the vicinity of the present channels.
1945 H. L. Chhibber India I. xiv. 187 The Newer Alluvium is confined to the river channels and their flood plains and is locally termed as Khaddar.
1949 M. S. Krishnan Geol. India & Burma xx. 519 The Newer Alluvium (called Khadar in the Punjab) is light coloured and poor in calcareous matter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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