diluvial en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /daɪˈluːvi.əl/
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin dīluviālis.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to or produced by a flood or deluge.
While stabilized and semistabilized sand dunes prevail in the desert in the Dzungarian Basin, shifting dunes are the rule in this desert, intermittently distributed along both the south and north banks of the O-erh-ch'i-szu Ho [translating 額爾齊斯河 /额尔齐斯河 (É'ěrqísī)] in the northwestern part of the basin. Lying under these dunes are the sloping diluvial terraces and undulating slopes of the mountain bases. Due to its high elevation and its being situated in the river valley between the Sa-wu-erh and A-erh-t'ai mountain ranges, gale force wind penetrates the region in winter and little snow is accumulated.
1975 August 18 [1974 May], “Study of China's Deserts [中国沙漠概论 CHUNG-KUO SHA-MO KAI-LUN]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 316, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking, Desert Laboratory Lanchow Institute of Glacier, Frozen Ground and Desert Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences [中国科学院兰州冰川冻土沙漠研究所沙漠研究室], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 47:
- (not-comparable) Pertaining to Noah's Flood.
Deriveds
prediluvial · diluvialism · diluvialist · postdiluvial · antediluvial
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Translations (18)
pl potopowy (Relating to a flood) · bg делувиален (Relating to a flood) · it diluviale (Relating to a flood) · ru дилювиа́льный (Relating to a flood) · fr diluvien (Relating to a flood) · fi tulva- (Relating to a flood) · de sintflutartig (Relating to a flood) · oc diluviau (Relating to a flood) · oc diluvial (Relating to a flood) · es diluvial (Relating to a flood) · fi diluviaalinen (Relating to a flood) · ca diluvial (Relating to a flood) · ca diluvià (Relating to a flood) · pt diluvial (Relating to a flood) · nl diluviaal (Relating to a flood) · sv diluvial (Relating to a flood) · pl dyluwialny (Relating to a flood) · fur diluviâl (Relating to a flood)