fluviatile
Definitions
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by rivers; fluvial
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial.
Examples
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All the rocks are of Pliocene or Pleistocene, fluviatile origin, and consist mainly of sandstones, conglomerates, quartzites, shales and micaceous sandstone.
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Approximately 1 billion years ago, large deposits of fluviatile sediments covered much of the northern savannas of Australia, forming sandstone plateaus.
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The soils of this ecoregion are all of fluviatile origin, except for the Coastal Barrier Islands that consist of marine sand overlain with an organic surface layer.
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The genus _Orcella_ seems to come in between the sea and river dolphins, although _Orcella fluminalis_ of Dr. Anderson is a purely fluviatile animal, which apparently never goes out to sea.
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The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.
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A row of sunken dwarf willows borders the stream on one or both sides, while at a greater distance the meadow is skirted with maples, alders, and other fluviatile trees, overrun with the grape-vine, which bears fruit in its season, purple, red, white, and other grapes.
Note
The word 'fluviatile' comes from a Latin root meaning 'river'.
