PLUVIAL


Meaning of PLUVIAL in English

adj. & n.

adj. 1 of rain; rainy. 2 Geol. caused by rain.

n. a period of prolonged rainfall. pluvious adj. (in sense 1).

[ L pluvialis f. pluvia rain ]

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