| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| solifluction |
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| SYLLABICATION: | so·li·fluc·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s  l -fl k shn, s l- |
| NOUN: | The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin solum, soil + Latin fl cti, flctin-, a flowing (from flctus, past participle of fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Appendix I).
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