fluvial
adj/ˈfluːvi.əl/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius (“a stream”) + -ālis, from the root of fluere (“to flow”).
1
Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
- ...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.2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:
- Synonyms
- fluviatile, riverine
- Derived terms
- adfluvial, fluvialist, fluviality, fluvially, fluviatic, glaciofluvial, interfluvial, orthofluvial, paleofluvial, parafluvial, subfluvial, transfluvial
- Coordinate terms
- alluvial