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pluvial (adjective), more pluvial, most pluvial
1. A descriptive term for an abundance of precipitation or heavy rain: Why is it that some parts of the country have more pluvial conditions, even with floods; while other sections are suffering from drought or not even any light rain for weeks or months?
2. Etymology: from French pluvial (12c.), "pertaining to rain"; from Latin pluvialis, "a reference to rain, rainy, rain-bringing"; from pluvia, "rain (water)"; from pluvius, "rainy"; and from plovere, "to rain".
A reference to rain or characterized by abundant rain.
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A reference to a lot of rain or an excessive amount of rain.
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pluvial period (s) (noun), pluvial periods (pl)
Heavy and prolonged precipitation during the Ice Age in a normally dry or semi-arid area of land with little evaporation: In her biology class at school, Linda learned that the extreme rainfall during the Pleistocene epoch was known as the pluvial period, which caused an expansion of vegetation and created lakes: for example, Lake Lahonta in Nevada, USA, and Lake Bonneville in Utah, USA.
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pluvial, more pluvial, most pluvial
Characterized by or pertaining to a lot of rain. (2)
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