adj.

1. Of, relating to, or inhabiting a river or stream.
2. Produced by the action of a river or stream.

[Middle English, from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius, river, from fluere, to flow.]

Of, or referring to, a river, including the organisms within a river or the landforms produced by river action. Fluvial deposition comprises material worked or deposited by rivers, fluvial geomorphology is the study of the morphology of river landforms, and fluvial processes include flow processes and sediment and solute transport in rivers. Fluvial erosion consists of: the destruction of bedrock on the sides and bottom of the river; the erosion of channel banks; and the breaking down of rock fragments into smaller fragments.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or relating to or happening in a river
  Pertains to noun: river (meaning #1)

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - flod-

Nederlands (Dutch)
betreffende een stroom/rivier

Français (French)
adj. - fluvial

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Fluß-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (γεωγρ.) ποτάμιος, ποταμίσιος

Italiano (Italian)
fluviale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fluvial

Русский (Russian)
речной, аллювиальная (равнина)

Español (Spanish)
adj. - fluvial

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - flod-

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
河的, 生在河中的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 河的, 生在河中的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 하천의, 강에 있는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 河川の, 河流の作用でできた, 河川に生じる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) نهري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של נהרות‬

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