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

It is deepest in the plains and depressed grounds, being accumulated much in the manner we should expect, on the supposition of a general diluvial submersion.

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

M. Gosse, of Geneva, found the Abbeville type of implements in the lowest diluvial deposits associated with the remains of animals of that period.

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

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)

Porous soils are composed of materials that always allow of the escape of superabundant moisture; they are generally underlaid by beds of diluvial gravels, or by rocks of a porous character.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.