a. [a. F. fluviatile, ad. L. fluviātilis, f. fluvius river.] Of or pertaining to a river or rivers; found, growing, or living in rivers; formed or produced by the action of rivers.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 48/1. Madefye a little linnen cloth in Fluviatile water.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., xi. § 1 (1689), 110. It is preferred (by some) before all Fishes, weather Marine, Fluviatile, or Lakish.
1774. Strange, in Phil. Trans., LXV. 45–6. It [buccinum] is of the fluviatile kind, and seems to be peculiar to these waters.
1823. W. Buckland, Reliq. Diluv., 164. The mud in which they are buried is evidently fluviatile, and not diluvian.
1878. Huxley, Physiography, 134. The river is, itself, a powerful agent of direct denudation—fluviatile denudation as it is sometimes termed.
