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fluvial
adjective
What it means
- not comparableOf, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store.
2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45Synonyms: fluviatile, riverine
In a sentence
...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store.
2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45
Where it comes from
- Latinfluviālis
- Englishfluvial
Borrowed from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius (“a stream”) + -ālis, from the root of fluere (“to flow”).
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