delta
/ˈdel·tə/ n [C]Definition
› an area of low, flat land, sometimes shaped approximately like a triangle, where a river divides into several smaller rivers before flowing into the sea: the Mississippi delta
(Definition of delta n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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