fluviatile
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fluviatile
1590–1600; < Latin fluviātilis, equivalent to fluvi- ( see fluvial) + -ātil ( is ) association suffix
Example Sentences
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The river crab, Potamon fluviatile, sneaks along streams throughout much of Italy, Greece and nearby Malta, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2012
Lower level gravel, with elephants' bones and flint tools covered with fluviatile loam, twenty to forty feet thick.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
We however find traces of aqueous action far more extensive and powerful than those which are now taking place under our eyes by fluviatile action.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert
The genus Orcella seems to come in between the sea and river dolphins, although Orcella fluminalis of Dr. Anderson is a purely fluviatile animal, which apparently never goes out to sea.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
But, if the bottom be lowered by sinking at the same rate that it is raised by fluviatile mud, the bay can never be turned into dry land.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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