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单词 subfluvial
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subfluvial
subfluvial adj.
Brit. /ˌsʌbˈfluːvɪəl/
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U.S. /ˌsəbˈfluviəl/
situated or extending under a river; situated or found on the bed of a river.
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1827 Q. Oriental Mag. 7 xiv. Science p. 11 In this latter clay the foundations of the lower or subfluvial embouchure were constructed.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 134 Making the subfluvial avenue [viz. the Thames tunnel] only a little gloomier than a street of upper London.
1930 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 38 397 The southern part of this subfluvial gravel deposit lies south of the ravine subsequently trenched in the middle of the old channel.
1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory Introd. 4 The smell..sharp and moldy as if it exuded from some vast subfluvial fungus growing in the primeval sludge.
2000 Technol. & Culture 41 684 The idea of a subfluvial cable arose out of concern for security. The Ottoman government made preparations for a cable in the bed of the Tigris, believing that it would be less liable to human interruption.
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