Definition of Fluvial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or happening in a river. "Fluvial deposits"

Partainyms: River

Definition of Fluvial

1. a. Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

Definition of Fluvial

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fluvial

1. pertaining to a river [adj] - See also: river

Medical Definition of Fluvial

1. Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant. Origin: L. Fluvialis, from fluvius river, fr. Fluere to flow: cf.F. Fluvial. See Fluent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluvial

fluttered the dovecote
flutterer
flutterers
fluttering
fluttering the dovecote
flutteringly
flutterings
flutters
flutters the dovecote
fluttersome
fluttery
fluty
fluvalinate
fluvastatin
fluvents
fluvial (current term)
fluvialist
fluvialists
fluviatic
fluviatile
fluvic
fluvio-marine
fluviomarine
fluviometer
fluvoxamine
flux
flux applicator
flux capacitor
flux capacitors

Literary usage of Fluvial

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

1. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"Comparative Rapidity of Marine and fluvial Planation. — Among those who admit the ability of unlimited wave action to reduce a land mass to an abrasion ..."

2. Handbook of International Law by George Grafton Wilson (1910)
"Maritime and fluvial domain includes the water area •within the boundaries of ... The Roman Law early provided that the aerial, maritime, and fluvial domain ..."

3. International Law by George Grafton Wilson, George Fox Tucker (1918)
"The influencing state disclaims all obligations possible.1 50. Maritime and fluvial Jurisdiction Wheaton states, as a general principle of ..."

4. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"... Chad—The Shari-Logon fluvial System— South-east Sudan : The ... White Nile—The Welle-Makua fluvial System — Geology and Mineral Resources of ..."

5. What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer by Julian R. Jackson (1841)
"See also the articles Delta, Debris, Islands, Shoals, fluvial-lagoons, and Inundations. Lacustrine-deposits differ from those ..."

6. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"l Central Plains—The Great fluvial Basins From the Venezuelan llanos to the ... The marine waters have merely been displaced by a single vast fluvial basin, ..."

7. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal to Common Sense from by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1893)
"Dolomieu and the theory of fluvial erosion,—Hutton,—Play fair,—Ebel,—Conybeare—The fluvial erosion theory answered by De Luc—Sir James Hall and ..."

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