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di⋅lu⋅vi⋅al

  [di-loo-vee-uhl]
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–adjective
1. pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
2. Geology Now Rare. pertaining to or consisting of diluvium.
Also, di⋅lu⋅vi⋅an.

Origin:
1650–60; < LL dīluviālis, equiv. to dīluvi(um) flood (see deluge ) + -ālis -al 1
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di·lu·vi·al   (dĭ-lōō'vē-əl)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or produced by a flood.

[Late Latin dīluviālis, from Latin dīluvium, flood, from dīluere, to wash away; see dilute.]
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Diluvian

Di*lu"vi*an\, a. [Cf. F. diluvien.] Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. --Buckland.
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