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comparative more riverine, superlative most riverine
Of or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river; inhabiting a river or its surrounds. quotations examples
"Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes."
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
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).
2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46
When beavers make a dam, they cause the local extinction of numerous riverine species that cannot survive in the new lake.
2017: We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution" by R. Alexander Pyron in the Washington Post