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pluvial
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or produced by rain 2 (context geology English) occurring through the action of rain n. (context geology English) a rainy period
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by rain; "their vacation turned out to be a series of rainy days" [syn: rainy , pluvious ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pluvial \Plu"vi*al\, a. [L. pluvialis, fr. pluvia rain: cf. F. pluvial. See Plover .] Of or pertaining to rain; rainy. [R.] (Geol.) Produced by the action of rain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "pertaining to rain," from French pluvial (12c.), from Latin pluvialis "pertaining to rain, rainy, rain-bringing," from (aqua) pluvia "rain (water)," from fem. of pluvius "rainy," from plovere "to rain," from PIE root *pleu- "to flow, to swim" (cognates: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geology and climatology , a pluvial is either a modern climate characterized by relatively high precipitation or an interval of time of variable length, decades to thousands of years, during which a climate characterized by either relatively high precipitation ...
Usage examples of pluvial.
Old Stone Age and was practically, by pluvial standards, a modern man.
Sometime during this last pluvial there disappeared from Africa the last manlike rivals of man as we know him -- Neanderthal Man, Rhodesian Man, and others caught in evolutionary stagnation.
But he could not even visualize this country as it must have been in pluvial times.
Wet, warm, pluvial times, the interglacial periods, melted the ice, creating torrents that scoured the mountains and plains and sped off to add their volume to the prodigious south-flowing river.
Great Salt Lake, which now ended miles to the west, was a big mother pluvial lake that put this spot almost a thousand feet underwater, with beaches miles to the east, up in the ramparts of the Wasatch Range.
It was an impression of being in the shop of a merchant of stuffs who draped before his eyes sendals and taffetas, brocades, satins, damasks, velvets, and bows, fringes and furbelows, and then stoles, pluvials, chasuÂbles, dalmatics.