Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to lakes.
- adj. Living or growing in or along the edges of lakes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a lake or to lakes.
- Living on or in lakes, as various animals.
- In botany, growing in lakes or ponds. Also lacustral and lacustrian.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to lakes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or living near lakes
Etymologies
- French or Italian lacustre (from Latin lacus, lake) + -ine1.
Examples
“Longitudinal studies have revealed a rapid build up of phosphorus in lacustrine sediments.”
“I also am fond of words like "lacustrine" what lake deposits are to a geologist.”
“Ann Willard, "lacustrine" from the Fort Lewis College/Durango Public Library Common Reading Experience”
“Air on this side of the curtain bullied and be jinxed by the lack of the lacustrine.”
“Other lacustrine species include Coccolaba uvifera, Languncularia recemosa and Cocos nucifera.”
“Lake Plain AVA consist of calcareous rich glacial-lacustrine sediments and high lime glacial till deposits in well drained to moderately drained soils with the ability to produce full bodied wines with character.”
“Evidence of changes in moisture transport efficiency across the Scandes mountains in northern Sweden during the Holocene, inferred from oxygen isotope records of lacustrine carbonates.”
“Holocene climatic change in Swedish Lapland inferred from an oxygen-isotope record of lacustrine biogenic silica.”
“Late Quaternary lacustrine pollen records from southwestern Beringia.”
“Holocene changes in atmospheric circulation recorded in the oxygen-isotope stratigraphy of lacustrine carbonates from northern Sweden.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lacustrine’.
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Logolepsy
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thinkgurl's list
sionnach "As the majestic initial chordal progression of Debussy's Submerged Cathedral filled the concert hall, evoking the faint sacerdotal chant of some ancient lacustrine brotherhood, Leopold looked at his wife's hugely tumescent belly, winced at the wave of pain that washed over his body in sympathetic contraction, and prayed that their health insurance was adequate to cover his-'n-her epidurals in cases of severe couvade."
Explanation: the above sentence was constructed in response to a challenge to use five specified words in a sentence, specifically the words couvade, lacustrine, sacerdotal, tumescent, chordal. Dec 31, 2007
seanahan Funny, I've pretty much only seen this wonderful word in translations. Dec 31, 2007
knitandpurl "And so it was that, at the foot of the path which led down to the artificial lake, there might be seen, in its two tiers woven of forget-me-nots and periwinkle flowers, a natural, delicate, blue garland encircling the water's luminous and shadowy brow, while the iris, flourishing its sword-blades in regal profusion, stretched out over agrimony and water-growing crowfoot the tattered fleurs-de-lis, violet and yellow, of its lacustrine sceptre."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 149 of the Vintage International paperback edition Dec 31, 2007