potamic

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potamic

(pəˈtæmɪk)

adj

(Physical Geography) of or relating to rivers

[C19: from Greek potamos river]

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fluminous, potamic - Two words meaning "pertaining to rivers" are fluminous and potamic.

See also related terms for rivers.

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Nevertheless, in laying out his environmental history, Metchnikoff claimed that he did not believe in "some kind of potamic fatalism", as civilizations "were a living synthesis of multiple geographic conditions" (Metchnikoff, 1889, page 364).

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V Sorokovikova, "First records of potamic leech fauna of Eastern Siberia," Dataset Papers in Biology, vol.

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This location is a short coastal river with largely potamic conditions.

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