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Definition of Illuvial
1. illuvium [adj] - See also: illuvium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illuvial
Literary usage of Illuvial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"¡illuvial part of this, the natural desolate wildness of which, not without its
own exceeding beauty, I have endeavoured to describe, consists of some of ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"A person whose land is hounded by a stream of water which changes its course
gradually by illuvial formation, shall still hold the same boundry, ..."
3. The Mineral Industry (1902)
"[Jold appears to be distributed over much of the country both in quartz and
illuvial deposits. The series of veins and alluvial deposits of Quang Nam in the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1854)
"The illuvial cover on the other hand is beneficial, by protecting the seams of
the strata from the superficial waters and rains, which would be apt to drown ..."
5. A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs by John Murray (Firm) (1871)
"with ut re-entering the sea. !.ranch, which, from the increasing, A new canal
from the Tiber, opening :illuvial deposits, had diminished so ' into the ..."
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