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Definition of Riverine
1. pertaining to a river [adj] - See also: river
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riverine
Literary usage of Riverine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: From Their Discovery by Woodbine Parish (1852)
"... from their proximity to the Parana, may be called the riverine Provinces, and
which, both from their geographical position and origin, were always more ..."
2. An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1888)
"... of Buenos Ayres and the riverine province ; is largely European, and immigration
has increased enormously of ..."
3. Dust Off: Army Aeromedical Evacuation in Vietnam by Peter Dorland, James Nanney (2001)
"riverine Operations Apart from the drama of even routine evacuations, the Dust
Off pilots working the Delta in this phase of the war had to cope with a new ..."
4. Our Western Empire; Or, The New West Beyond the Mississippi: The Latest and by Linus Pierpont Brockett (1880)
"AREA AND EXTENT—BOUNDARIES—COMPARATIVE AREA—ITS riverine Borat- ARIES—SURFACE OK
THE COUNTRY—SENSE IN WHICH IT is A PRAIRIE—ITS GRADUAL ELEVATION TO THE ..."
5. Our Western Empire by Linus Pierpont Brockett (1882)
"AREA AND EXTENT—BOUNDARIES—COMPARATIVE AREA—ITS riverine BOUND- ARIES—SURFACE OF
THE COUNTRY—SENSE IN WHICH IT is A PRAIRIE—ITS GRADUAL ELEVATION TO THE ..."
6. The Congo Independent State: A Report on a Voyage of Enquiry (1906)
"... and nearly all the riverine villages, and so arriving again at Basoko.
From Basoko I paid a surprise visit down river to Bumba in a launch lent me by ..."
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