diluvium

American  

[dih-loo-vee-uhm] / dɪˈlu vi əm /

Or diluvion

noun

Geology Now Rare.

• diluvia,
  plural
• diluviums
  plural

1. a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.

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diluvium British  

/ daɪˈluːvɪəm, dɪ- /

noun

1. geology a former name for glacial drift See drift

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• diluvia
  plural
• diluviums
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of diluvium

1810–20; < Latin dīluvium flood; see deluge

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

diluvium

The colour of the upper rivers, which are white with the diluvium from the glaciers, is itself evidence of the erosive powers which they exercise.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Sir John Lubbock

The excavations made in the extension of the city of New-York at Corlaer's Hook, have laid open a vast mass of diluvium, and afforded means for studying it with great facility.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh

We travelled over land equal to any that we had seen, a deep black diluvium with grass three or four feet high, and thinly-timbered.

From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

Then, after another long period, these appear, in what is called the tertiary period; until, at last, some remains of man are found, in the diluvium, or gravel.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Several large stones came rolling down from the diluvium in the course of the afternoon.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

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