fluviatile
[ floo-vee-uh-til, -tahyl ]
adjective
pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.
Origin of 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 HorsleyIt 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. DuckworthThey have been carried away grain by grain by the denuding forces—by weathering, rain, frost, and fluviatile and marine action.
Geology | James GeikieLower level gravel, with elephants' bones and flint tools covered with fluviatile loam, twenty to forty feet thick.
A Manual of the Antiquity of Man | J. P. MacLeanThe species he considers for the most part marine, but that a few of them belong to land and fluviatile genera.
Memoranda on Tours, Touraine and Central France. | J. H. Holdsworth
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