lacustrine

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The wooden dining-room stuck out over the mud of the shore like a lacustrine dwelling; the planks of the floor seemed rotten; a decrepit old waiter tottered pathetically to and fro before an antediluvian and worm-eaten sideboard; the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled times more ancient still.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to lakes.
  2. adjective Living or growing in or along the edges of lakes.

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  • Here we describe a well-preserved theropod trackway in a Lower Jurassic (~198 million-year-old) lacustrine beach sandstone in the Whitmore Point Member of the Moenave Formation in southwestern Utah. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Dinosaurs were ground-nesters and could utilize either 'upland's', deserts and forests or fluvial, lacustrine or onshore swampy environments for nests. —  RealClimate
  • Anchiornis huxleyi gen. et sp. nov., based on a specimen collected from lacustrine deposits of uncertain age in western Liaoning, China. —  PALAEOBLOG
  • As is often the case, we find traces of him in the river-valleys more frequently than elsewhere, and it is in beds of clay, conjectured to be of lacustrine origin, that we find those rudely shapen flint nodules which served him for tools. —  Hertfordshire
  • Secondly, if the bed contain the remains of shellfish, minute crustaceans, or fish, such as now inhabit lakes, we know that it is "lacustrine," and was deposited beneath the waters of a former lake. —  The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science
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  1. French or Italian lacustre (from Latin lacus, lake) + -ine1.

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  1. from Latin as if *lacustris (later Italian Portuguese Spanish F. lacustre), of a lake, from lacus, a lake: see lake.
 

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