fluvio-, fluvi-
(Latin: river, stream)
effluvium
1. A foul-smelling outflow or vapor; especially, a gaseous waste.
2. An unpleasant smell or harmful fumes usually given off by waste or decaying matter.
3. A slight or invisible exhalation or vapor; especially, one that is disagreeable or noxious.
fluvial
1. Pertaining to rivers and river activities; found or living in a river.
2. Produced by a river or stream.
fluvialist
One who explains certain phenomena in geology or physical geography by the action of existing streams.
fluviated
Overflowed by a river, marshy.
fluviatic
Growing or living in streams.
fluviatile
1. Inhabiting rivers and streams; fluvial.
2. Of or pertaining to a river or rivers; found, growing, or living in rivers; formed, caused, or produced by the action of rivers.
fluviation
1. The formation of rivers.
2. A river system.
fluvicoline
Inhabiting or frequenting rivers or streams; said of certain birds, fishes, mollusks, etc.
fluvioaeolian
In geology, produced or caused by the action of streams and wind.
fluvioglacial
Pertaining to streams flowing from a glacier, or to deposits laid down from glacial streams; glaciofluvial.
fluvioglacial, glaciofluvial
Pertaining to streams flowing from a glacier, or to deposits laid down from glacial streams; glaciofluvial.
fluviograph
An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.
fluviolacustrine
Pertaining to or produced by the action of both rivers and lakes.
fluviologist
A specialist in the study of rivers.
fluviology
1. The scientific study of rivers.
2. The facts and conditions relating to a river or a river-system.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "river, stream":
amni-;
meand-;
oceano-;
potamo-;
ripari-.
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