intrapluvialadj.n.
/ɪntrəˈpluːvɪəl/ A. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or designating relatively short, drier periods (less marked than interpluvials) that may have occurred during pluvials.
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antediluvial1822
psychozoic1828
pluvial1868
anthropic1893
Ozarkian1896
mature1899
interpluvial1907
Rhaeto-Liassic1909
intrapluvial1934
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > in the geological past > specific
genial1838
pluvial1868
boreal1876
sub-Atlantic1876
sub-boreal1876
interpluvial1907
intrapluvial1934
Atlantic1935
hypsithermal1957
1934 E. J. Wayland in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. LXIV. 344 In each of them [sc. pluvials] there is a break, or intrapluvial period.
1940 Geogr. Jrnl. 96 333 There have been very long wet and dry phases, the so-called pluvials and interpluvials; there have been shorter intrapluvials and epipluvials; and there have been short-period oscillations... The intrapluvial oscillations are measured in terms of one hundred years.
B. n.
An intrapluvial period.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > other ages or periods
terrace-epoch1863
youth1896
secule1903
pluvial1929
interpluvial1931
intrapluvial1939
salinity crisis1967
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > prevailing weather or climate > in the geological past > specific
pluvial1929
interpluvial1931
intrapluvial1939
1939 T. P. O'Brien Prehist. Uganda i. 9 The evidence in support of the intrapluvial in Pluvial I was provided by local, though not intense, soil reddening, selenite beds within Pluvial I deposits and by talus accumulations.
1940 [see sense A.]. 1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past viii. 247 The succession of pluvials with intrapluvials and separated by interpluvials, however, appears at present to be somewhat uncertain.
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adj.n.1934