| Flashcards: Latin Derivatives |
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pluvial
of or pertaining to rain, especially much rain; rainy
By examining the terraces of Lake Bonneville, a dried-up lake in Utah that once covered some 20,000 square miles, geologists have found that, 10,000 years ago, in the latest pluvial period, the level of the lake was 600 feet higher than the lake bed’s present elevation.
Latin root words: pluvia, pliviae, f. - rain; pluvialis, pluviale - rainy; of rain
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