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 ( 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

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

This soil is a stiff, reddish-colored clay, filled with fragments of cherty stones, quartz, and small gravel, clearly attesting its diluvial character.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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 Marsh, George P.

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