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Diluvium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An inundation or flood; a deluge.
  2. 2
    A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“to wash”). Doublet of deluge.

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