riverine
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
riverine (comparative more riverine, superlative most riverine) (literary or technical)
- Of or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river; inhabiting a river or its surrounds.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- "Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes."
- 2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles[2], page 46:
- It is perhaps instructive to note that tropical riverine batagurids, although more similar to other river-dwelling lineages in reproductive patterns than to other semi-aquatic and terrestrial batagurids, still tend to have lower fecundities and bigger eggs relative to their body sizes than do the other groups (e.g., riverine emydids, trionychids, and podocnemids) (Moll & Moll, 1990).
- 2017: We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution" by R. Alexander Pyron in the Washington Post
- When beavers make a dam, they cause the local extinction of numerous riverine species that cannot survive in the new lake.
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Translations
of or pertaining to rivers
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