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  • 21streaming — Synonyms and related words: affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back flowing, backward, bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat and doggish, confluent, coursing, dangling, decurrent,… …

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  • 22pluvial — a. Rainy, humid, pluvious …

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  • 23rainy — adj 1. raining, pluvial, pluvious, hyetal, showery, showering, stormy; drizzly, drizzling, sprinkling, Chiefly Dial. mizzling, dripping, drippy. 2. wet, damp, moist, drenched, soaked …

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  • 24soppy — adj 1. sodden, soggy, sopping or wringing or dripping wet; soaked, drenched, saturated. See sodden(defs. 1, 2). 2. rainy, pluvial, pluvious, Meteorology. precipita tive, raining cats and dogs, coming down in buckets; rain drenched, watery, puddly …

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  • 25pluvial —   a. pertaining or due to rain; having much rain.    ♦ pluvine, a.    ♦ pluviography, n. recording of rainfall.    ♦ pluviometer, n. rain gauge.    ♦ pluvious,    ♦ pluviose, a. rainy …

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  • 26pluviose — [plo͞o′vēəsplo͞o′vē ōs΄] adj. [L pluviosus < pluvia: see PLUVIAL] characterized by much rain; rainy: also pluvious [plo͞o′vēəs] pluviosity [plo͞o′vēäs′ə tē] n …

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  • 27pluvial — adj. & n. adj. 1 of rain; rainy. 2 Geol. caused by rain. n. a period of prolonged rainfall. Derivatives: pluvious adj. (in sense 1). Etymology: L pluvialis f. pluvia rain …

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  • 28Plu|vi|ôse — «PLOO vee ohs; French ploo VYOHZ», noun. the fifth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, extending from January 20 to February 18. ╂[< French Pluviôse < Latin pluviōsus pluvious] …

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