fluviatile, a.
(ˈfluːvɪətɪl)
[a. F. fluviatile, ad. L. fluviātilis, f. fluvius river.]
Of or pertaining to a river or rivers; found, growing, or living in rivers; formed or produced by the action of rivers.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 48/1 Madefye a little linnen cloth in Fluviatile water. 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xi. §1 (1689) 110 Fishes, whether Marine Fluviatile or Lakish. 1774 Strange in Phil. Trans. LXV. 45 It [buccinum] is of the fluviatile kind. 1823 W. Buckland Reliq. Diluv. 164 The mud..is evidently fluviatile and not diluvian. 1878 Huxley Physiog. 134 The river is, itself, a powerful agent of direct denudation—fluviatile denudation as it is sometimes termed. |