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
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 inland sand plains of Europe are either derived from the drifting of dunes or other beach sands, or consist of diluvial deposits.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
When he finished, an animated discussion began, but laurels were on Kropotkin's head; it was admitted that all old theories concerning the diluvial period in Russia were erroneous.
From Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson
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 Edward Hitchcock
Above this, constituting the top layer, or surface soil, rests a bed of diluvial materials, filled with broken-down fragments of rock, masses of radiated quartz, and chips of hornstone.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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