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riverine.

Adjective
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MEANING

Associated with rivers and the areas alongside them.

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  • riverine forest
  • riverine settlement

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A riverine forest followed the water through the dry plain.
The riverine settlement moved whenever the channel shifted.

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riverine

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Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a seasonal, material, ecological, or geographic relation; comparison requires a measurable or descriptive basis. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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