pluvial
- noun
- /ˈpluːviəl/
- Specialized
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pluvial
- Scientists study sediment layers to learn about each ancient pluvial and its impact on the environment.
Examples
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During the African pluvial, many now-dry lakes supported diverse wildlife.
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Many fossils from the pluvial era have been discovered.
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The Sahara was much greener during the last pluvial thousands of years ago.
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The pluvial period significantly altered the region's landscape.
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Scientists study sediment layers to learn about each ancient pluvial and its impact on the environment.
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The Sahara was much greener during the last pluvial thousands of years ago.
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During the African pluvial, many now-dry lakes supported diverse wildlife.
Antonyms
How Wet
Surface Forms
Morphology
pluvial = pluvi + al
The combining form 'pluvi-' is not a productive or familiar English base, so the geological sense 'period of increased rainfall' is not transparently predictable for learners.
Etymology
A pluvial comes from the Latin pluvia 'rain' and is used for a long period of extra rain in the past, so a past pluvial explains times when places were much wetter.