lacustrine

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/ləˈkʌstɹɪn//-aɪn/

adjective

Of or relating to lakes.

Meanings

adjectivelacustrine (comparative more lacustrine, superlative most lacustrine)

comparative more lacustrine · superlative most lacustrine

  1. Of or relating to lakes.

    It covers all of the DVGD^([Dixie Valley Geothermal District]) and is more lacustrine in nature than the other valley-fill layers.

    2014, David Blackwell, Richard Smith, Maria Richards, Dixie Valley Synthesis, page 21
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    These deposits of sand have always been formed by the disintegration of a siliceous rock, and the fragments so formed have been sifted and transported by the agency of water, being finally deposited by a river either in the sea (marine deposits) or in lakes (lacustrine deposits), while the action of water, either during transport or after deposition, has frequently worn the individual particles into the shape of rounded grains.

    1919, Walter Rosenhain, Glass Manufacture, page 34

    […]has some of these features, such as brooding one brood a year (which suggests that this species may have evolved under more lacustrine conditions).

    1982, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, “Tilapias in Fish Communities”, in Roger S. V. Pullin, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, editors, The Biology and Culture of Tilapias: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Biology and Culture of Tilapias, 2-5 September 1980, page 112

    1986, M. O. Woodburne, C. R. Campbell, T. H. V. Rich, N. S. Pledge, 5: Geology, Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, Michael O. Woodburne, W. A Clemens (Editors), Revision of the Ektopodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Phalangeroidea) of the Australian Neogene, University of California Geological Publications, Volume 131, page 75, This apparently reflects a general change from a more lacustrine environment in the lower member to a more fluviatile setting in the upper.

    Goose Lake is one of the many wide lakes of the Great Basin where water that has no outlet to a major river, much less to the ocean, pools in shallow wetlands that are major homes for migrating waterfowl and all sorts of lacustrine life, from tiny shrimp to redband trout.

    2020, James Pogue, “Redbands”, in California Fly Fisher

Origin

  1. Latinlacustris
  2. Englishlacustrine

From Latin lacustris, from lacus (“lake”).

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Translations

Bulgarian езерен
  • езерен (ezeren)of or relating to lakes
Finnish lakustrinen
  • lakustrinenof or relating to lakes
French lacustre
  • lacustreof or relating to lakes
German lakustrisch
  • lakustrischof or relating to lakes
Polish jeziorny
  • jeziornyof or relating to lakes
Portuguese lacustre
  • lacustreof or relating to lakes
Russian озёрный
  • озёрный (ozjórnyj)of or relating to lakes
Spanish lacustre
  • lacustreof or relating to lakes
Turkish gölcül
  • gölcülof or relating to lakes

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APA

lacustrine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacustrine

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Chicago

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