fluviatile

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

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

Origin of fluviatile

1
1590–1600; <Latin fluviātilis, equivalent to fluvi- (see fluvial) + -ātil(is) association suffix

Words Nearby fluviatile

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How to use fluviatile in a sentence

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

    Our British Snails | John William Horsley
  • It lay some five feet beneath the surface in a deposit which seems to be an ancient one of fluviatile origin.

    Prehistoric Man | W. L. H. Duckworth
  • They have been carried away grain by grain by the denuding forces—by weathering, rain, frost, and fluviatile and marine action.

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

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