diluvial

American  

[dih-loo-vee-uhl] / dɪˈlu vi əl /

Or diluvian

adjective

1. pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.

2. Geology Now Rare. pertaining to or consisting of diluvium.

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diluvial British  

/ daɪˈluːvɪəl, dɪ- /

adjective

1. of or connected with a deluge, esp with the great Flood described in Genesis

2. of or relating to diluvium

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diluvial Scientific  

/ dĭ-lo̅o̅′vē-əl /

1. Relating to or produced by a flood.

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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

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 uppermost stratum of these pits or mines is a rich fertile yellow loam, exactly resembling our diluvial loams.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The diluvial or glacial origin of the Neanderthal skull is still further confirmed by the discoveries made, in the summer of 1865, in the Teufelskammer.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

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

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