Word of the Day 12/17/23 Pluvial

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Pluvial (adjective, noun)
pluvial [ ploo-vee-uhl ]

adjective
1. of or relating to rain, especially much rain; rainy.
2. Geology. occurring through the action of rain.

noun
1. Geology. a rainy period formerly regarded as coeval with a glacial age, but now recognized as episodic and, in the tropics, as characteristic of interglacial ages.

OTHER WORDS FROM PLUVIAL
in·ter·plu·vi·al, adjective

WORDS RELATED TO PLUVIAL
damp, moist, stormy, wet, hyetal, pluvious, showery

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ORIGIN: 1650–60; < Latin pluviālis, equivalent to pluvi(a) rain + -ālis-al

HOW TO USE PLUVIAL IN A SENTENCE
The pluvial autumn wind came sweeping along between the rows of houses.
THE SONG OF SONGS | HERMANN SUDERMANN

Miquel y Bada mentions a magnificent velvet pluvial in gold and three colours, belonging to a church in Catalua.
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF OLDER SPAIN, VOLUME III (OF 3) | LEONARD WILLIAMS

From the pluvial period to the present the valley has been the scene of frequent volcanic disturbances.
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY | CHARLES FOSTER KENT

And this tete-a-tete decorated with flowers; and this pluvial cope in this case.
COSMOPOLIS, COMPLETE | PAUL BOURGET

During the pluvial periods when hydrosere-loving shrews populated the Great Basin, that region may have been a treeless grassland.
SPECIATION OF THE WANDERING SHREW | JAMES S. FINDLEY

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