fluviatile

[ floo-vee-uh-til, -tahyl ]

adjective

1. pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fluviatile¹

1590–1600; < Latin fluviātilis, equivalent to fluvi- ( fluvial ) + -ātil ( is ) association suffix

Example Sentences

I may notice here two other land shells, although they scientifically are grouped amongst the fluviatile Gasteropoda.

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It lay some five feet beneath the surface in a deposit which seems to be an ancient one of fluviatile origin.

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They have been carried away grain by grain by the denuding forces—by weathering, rain, frost, and fluviatile and marine action.

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Lower level gravel, with elephants' bones and flint tools covered with fluviatile loam, twenty to forty feet thick.

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The species he considers for the most part marine, but that a few of them belong to land and fluviatile genera.

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