Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or inhabiting a river or stream.
- adj. Produced by the action of a river or stream.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating or pertaining to rivers: as, fluvial waters; fluvial navigation or fisheries.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or happening in a river
Etymologies
- From Latin fluviālis. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius, river, from fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This second form, often called fluvial, occurs only in relatively larger river basins that contain a network of headwater spawning tributaries connected to larger riverine habitat, allowing bull trout to undertake movements of more than 100 miles 160 km as they search for prey.”
“Phenomena associated with flowing water are called fluvial processes.”
“All of these phenomena point toward what geologists call fluvial processes -- those associated with running water.”
“All of these phenomena point toward what geologists call fluvial processes - those associated with running water.”
“For some systems, this is the starting point immediately after an event such as fluvial or volcanic deposition.”
“Below the dial, the river and the vine meet, a rendezvous of the floral and the fluvial, literally watched over by time.”
“Fluster is on a dictionary page with flush and flux and fluvial.”
“She has just met a fine confused set of marine and fluvial phenomena.”
“I believe this thread has more than run its natural course (both in terms of the original question, which was in relation to the Lake Chapala area, and perhaps even in fluvial and hydrological terms), so I'm locking it as is, and if you want to continue the discussion, feel free to start a new thread - perhaps on the Living Forum?”
“I have studied the effects of eutrophication on fluvial macroinvertebrate communities, specifically their ecotoxicological impacts on aquatic species.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fluvial’.
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Zooey's list
cosmology, consummate, demiurge, paradisiacal, reconnaissance, intransigent, otiose, zeitgeist, coalesce, zeitgeber, absolve, abstruse and 105 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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fluvio-
of or relating to a river or rivers
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oldecat's Words
noncommutative, morphodynamics, ferrywoman, circumcircle, acceleration, inactivity, biodiesel, corrosion, quadrilogy, imprimitivity, normalizer, teleosemantics and 240 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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martha.mongolia's list
frowzy, mawkish, insidious, beatific, invidious, fluvial, brahma, pantheon, cahiers, lilt, eschatological, joie de vive and 9 more...
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Specialty Words
Particular prose for the particular situation, these words are meant for something specific. It's not every day you get the chance to use one, so carpe diem when you do.
gezellig, jayus, cafune, shanghai, tartle, prozvonit, zarf, grawlix, whimperative, Cupertino effect, sprezzatura, oronym and 4 more...
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The Environment
biome, climax community, biofuel, chlorofluorocarbons, understory, desertification, gasohol, irreversibilities, overstory, high-grading, bioplastics, sustainability and 88 more...
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Latinate Adjectives
ursine, vulpine, leonine, lupine, porcine, apian, vermian, cygnean, gallinaceous, cetacean, renal, hepatic and 14 more...
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word set 5
sapidity, devolved, mincingly, zootechnics, eschatology, tribulations, peccadillo, anorgasmia, hermaphrodite, serial monogamy, freethinker, sorceress and 83 more...
Tweets
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joannasephine of or pertaining to rivers and streams Mar 6, 2008