Definition of Interpluvial

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interpluvial

interplea
interplead
interpleaded
interpleader
interpleaders
interpleading
interpleads
interpleas
interpled
interpledge
interpledged
interpledges
interpledging
interpleural space
interploidy
interpluvial (current term)
interpoint
interpointed
interpointing
interpoints
interpolable
interpolant
interpolants
interpolate
interpolated
interpolated extrasystole
interpolated flap
interpolates
interpolating
interpolation

Literary usage of Interpluvial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"He compares only his last pluvial period with the great Pleistocene Ice Age, but he assumes some interpluvial periods in it, which might be compared with ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1908)
"Doctor Gilbert's well known proof of two moist periods in the history of lake Bonneville in Utah, with a dry interpluvial time, corresponding to two ice ..."

3. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"Mounds upon the site of the buried city of Nippur (after the cast by Muret). interpluvial climate - the " pulse of Asia " the record of the Asiatic deserts ..."

4. Explorations in Turkestan: With an Account of the Basin of Eastern Persia by Raphael Pumpelly, William Morris Davis, Ellsworth Huntington (1905)
"... in the bottom of a basin which contained a lake during pluvial epochs, but was dry or contained merely a plava during interpluvial epochs. ..."

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