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 horizontal position of the ore-beds in the red clay soil, may be regarded as an evidence of its being a diluvial deposit.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
The whole area of upland soil, which rests as a mantle over the rocks, is a diluvium, which must, we think, be referred to an early period of diluvial action.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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 Robinson, Victor
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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