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Fluvial   /flˈuviəl/   Listen
Fluvial

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or happening in a river.





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"Fluvial" Quotes from Famous Books



... irrigate, drench &c (wet) 337; spill, splash. [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up &c (close) 261; obstruct &c 706. Adj. fluent; diffluent^, profluent^, affluent; tidal; flowing &c v.; meandering, meandry^, meandrous^; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy^, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous^; stillatitious^. Phr. for men may come and men may go but I go on forever [Tennyson]; that old man river, he ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... gorges, the graves of fluvial gods who had perished long ago, opened into the main canon. In passing these the voyagers had momentary glimpses of sublimities and horrors which seemed like the handiwork of that "anarch old," who wrought before the shaping of the universe. ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... lake. After some months of untiring energy and perseverance, there was discovered for Bolivia a fine port, with depth of water for any ordinary river steamer, which will now be known to the world as Puerto Quijarro. A direct fluvial route, therefore, exists between the Atlantic and ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray


Words linked to "Fluvial" :   river


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