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fluviatile

[ floo-vee-uh-til, -tahyl ]

adjective

  1. pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fluviatile1

1590–1600; < Latin fluviātilis, equivalent to fluvi- ( fluvial ) + -ātil ( is ) association suffix

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Example Sentences

I may notice here two other land shells, although they scientifically are grouped amongst the fluviatile Gasteropoda.

It lay some five feet beneath the surface in a deposit which seems to be an ancient one of fluviatile origin.

They have been carried away grain by grain by the denuding forces—by weathering, rain, frost, and fluviatile and marine action.

Lower level gravel, with elephants' bones and flint tools covered with fluviatile loam, twenty to forty feet thick.

The species he considers for the most part marine, but that a few of them belong to land and fluviatile genera.

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