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
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Etymology
Origin of diluvial
1650–60; < Late Latin dīluviālis, equivalent to dīluvi ( um ) flood ( see deluge) + -ālis -al 1
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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 Mackenzie, on emerging from the Narrows, separates into many branches, which flow to the sea through alluvial or diluvial deltas and islands.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
The gravel-ore and mixed diluvial gravel is likewise a newer deposit, coinciding with the era of the primitive and secondary boulders.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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 J. A. Warder
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