fluvial.

Associated with rivers or with the action of flowing river water.

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Words that belong together

• fluvial deposits
• fluvial erosion

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Fluvial erosion had cut deeply into the bank.

Rounded stones lay within the old fluvial deposits.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.