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fluvial

[ floo-vee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a river:

    a meandering fluvial contour.

  2. produced by or found in a river:

    fluvial plants.



fluvial

/ ˈfluːvɪəl; -tɪl; ˈfluːvɪəˌtaɪl /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or occurring in a river

    fluvial deposits

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

fluvial

/ flo̅o̅vē-əl /

  1. Relating to or inhabiting a river or stream.
  2. Produced by the action of a river or stream.
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Other Words From

  • trans·fluvi·al adjective
  • un·fluvi·al adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fluvial1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin fluviālis, equivalent to fluvi ( us ) river (derivative of fluere to flow) + -ālis -al 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fluvial1

C14: from Latin fluviālis , from fluvius river, from fluere to flow
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Example Sentences

The bookish antiquarians may be held in public affection, but they are not going to stop the Olympics' first ever fluvial overture.

From BBC

The research suggests that horses also cause significant loss of soil carbon through waterways, known as fluvial carbon loss.

When they ran the simulation, the model revealed erosional Martian landscapes that formed topographic benches and noses, rather than fluvial ridges, appearing almost identical to landforms observed by the Curiosity rover inside the Gale crater.

Landscape evolution simulations demonstrated that expansion of the Yangtze watershed since the Late Miocene could be responsible for 1 to 2 kilometers of fluvial incision.

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, a fluvial geomorphologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, said in a news release that the research will also help advance scientific understanding of carbon cycling from fallen trees.

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