What does "fluvial" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "fluvial"?

Common synonyms include: alluvial, fluviatile, fluviatile, marine, riverine.

Fluvial

//ˈfluːvi.əl// adj

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream. not-comparable
"...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store."

Adjective

1
of or relating to or happening in a river wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

alluvial fluviatile fluviatile marine riverine

Example

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"...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius (“a stream”) + -ālis, from the root of fluere (“to flow”).

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