Diluvial

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or produced by a flood.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to a flood or deluge, especially to the deluge recorded in Genesis.
  • In geology, related to or consisting of diluvium.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.
  • adjective. Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Relating to or produced by a flood or deluge.
  • adjective. Pertaining to Noah's Flood.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or connected with a deluge
  • Word Usage
    "It may also be remarked that, common as is the occurrence of diluvial animal bones in the muddy deposits of caverns, such remains have not hitherto been met with in the caves of the Neanderthal; and that the bones, which were covered by a deposit of mud not more than four or five feet thick, and without any protective covering of stalagmite, have retained the greatest part of their organic substance."
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