fluviatile

[ floo-vee-uh-til, -tahyl ]

/ ˈflu vi ə tɪl, -ˌtaɪl /

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adjective

pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.

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Origin of fluviatile

1590–1600; <Latin fluviātilis, equivalent to fluvi- (see fluvial) + -ātil(is) association suffix

I may notice here two other land shells, although they scientifically are grouped amongst the fluviatile Gasteropoda.
Our British Snails|John William Horsley
It lay some five feet beneath the surface in a deposit which seems to be an ancient one of fluviatile origin.
Prehistoric Man|W. L. H. Duckworth
They have been carried away grain by grain by the denuding forces—by weathering, rain, frost, and fluviatile and marine action.
Geology|James Geikie
Lower level gravel, with elephants' bones and flint tools covered with fluviatile loam, twenty to forty feet thick.
A Manual of the Antiquity of Man|J. P. MacLean

The species he considers for the most part marine, but that a few of them belong to land and fluviatile genera.
Memoranda on Tours, Touraine and Central France.|J. H. Holdsworth