Definitions for pluvial

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pluvial plu·vi·al

Spelling: [ploo-vee-uh l]

IPA: /ˈplu vi əl/

Pluvial is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in pluvial (aillpuv).

Definitions for pluvial

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.

adjective

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

Origin of pluvial

1650-60; Latin pluviālis, equivalent to pluvi(a) rain + -ālis -al¹

Examples for pluvial

Scandinavian mythology, therefore, appears to regard the goat as essentially the one that makes fruitful, as a pluvial cloud.

It has been called the pluvial or Lacustrine Age, the rain or pond period.

During the pluvial periods when hydrosere-loving shrews populated the Great Basin, that region may have been a treeless grassland.

The fish and the rain remind us of the myth of the phallical and pluvial cuckoo.

And this tete-a-tete decorated with flowers; and this pluvial cope in this case.

The pluvial autumn wind came sweeping along between the rows of houses.

From the pluvial period to the present the valley has been the scene of frequent volcanic disturbances.