diluvial
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
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Geology Now Rare. pertaining to or consisting of diluvium.
adjective
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of or connected with a deluge, esp with the great Flood described in Genesis
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of or relating to diluvium
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
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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
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
Generally, they present the form of diluvial ridges, sparingly covered with forest, and bearing a growth of prairie-grass and herbage.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
The metalliferous, red, marly clay, is, in fine, the most interesting geological problem connected with the mines, and is calculated to show us how little we know of the true eras of the diluvial deposits.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
This metalliferous rock has evidently, in former ages, been scooped out by rivers and streams, forming valleys and vast diluvial plateaux, where the abraded materials were deposited.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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