diluvial

American  

[dih-loo-vee-uhl] / dɪˈlu vi əl /

Or diluvian

adjective

1. pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.

2. Geology Now Rare. pertaining to or consisting of diluvium.

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diluvial British  

/ daɪˈluːvɪəl, dɪ- /

adjective

1. of or connected with a deluge, esp with the great Flood described in Genesis

2. of or relating to diluvium

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diluvial Scientific  

/ dĭ-lo̅o̅′vē-əl /

1. Relating to or produced by a flood.

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Other Word Forms

• prediluvial adjective
• undiluvial adjective
• undiluvian adjective

Etymology

Origin of diluvial

1650–60; < Late Latin dīluviālis, equivalent to dīluvi ( um ) flood ( see deluge) + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

For the past two years the South Florida Water Management District, reacting to the diluvial warnings, has drained water from Lake Okeechobee, one of the peninsula's most vital hydrosources, to avoid storm flooding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Porous soils are composed of materials that always allow of the escape of superabundant moisture; they are generally underlaid by beds of diluvial gravels, or by rocks of a porous character.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

The whole area of upland soil, which rests as a mantle over the rocks, is a diluvium, which must, we think, be referred to an early period of diluvial action.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

The advocates of the diluvial origin of petrifactions soon found themselves hard pressed with the question, how these relics could be scattered through strata many thousand feet thick, by one transient flood.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

Vegetable matter and black sand form a covering over such parts of this diluvial deposit as constitute valleys and agricultural plains.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe