Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fluvial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of riverine nature; growing in or near fresh water; produced by river action; fluvial: as, fluviatile species or deposits.
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.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by
rivers ;fluvial
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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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The Niger Delta is the product of both fluviatile and marine sediment build-up since the upper Cretaceous, and its low relief is responsible for the meandering and frequent shifting of the Niger and its tributaries.
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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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It further contributed to Paleontology as many vertebrate fossils were collected, most often by workers, from late lower and early middle Miocene sand units that correspond to regressive, mainly fluviatile events in an otherwise essentially marine series.
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Some of the latter correspond to the deposition of fluviatile sands rich in mammals and other fossils.
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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.
Walden 2004
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Analogous to the above mentioned gold deposits, recent fluviatile alluvial tin deposits are exploited, e.g. on the Rio Huanuni, Dept. Oruro, Bolivia.
Chapter 17 1993
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But if the bottom be lowered by sinking at the same rate that it is raised by fluviatile mud, the bay can never be turned into dry land.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Occasionally lacustrine and fluviatile shells, or the bones of amphibious or land reptiles, point to the same conclusion.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
jaime_d commented on the word fluviatile
related to a stream or river
from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
July 19, 2009
qms commented on the word fluviatile
Old crocs that are cruising the Nile
To Aussie eyes look juvenile.
They are mighty paltry
Compared to a saltie
And prosaically fluviatile.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word fluviatile
Oh, we have freshies too.
December 11, 2018