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riverine

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From river +‎ -ine.

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riverine (comparative more riverine, superlative most riverine) (literary or technical)

  1. Of or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river; inhabiting a river or its surrounds.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes."
    • 2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles‎[1], page 46:
      It is perhaps instructive to note that tropical riverine batagurids, although more similar to other river-dwelling lineages in reproductive patterns than to other semi-aquatic and terrestrial batagurids, still tend to have lower fecundities and bigger eggs relative to their body sizes than do the other groups (e.g., riverine emydids, trionychids, and podocnemids) (Moll & Moll, 1990).
    • 2017: We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution" by R. Alexander Pyron in the Washington Post
      When beavers make a dam, they cause the local extinction of numerous riverine species that cannot survive in the new lake.

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