lake-dwellingadj.
/ˈleɪkˌdwɛlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈleɪkˌdwɛlɪŋ/ 1. Chiefly Archaeology and Anthropology. That lives by or on a lake; (in early use) esp. designating a member of a prehistoric community living in a lake dwelling (see lake dwelling n.).
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lake-dwelling1863
1863 Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 767 Dr. Keller goes on to say that these early lake-dwelling Swiss were Kelts.
1949 M. Mead Male & Female iii. 54 (heading) The lake-dwelling Tchambuli.
2020 Health & Human Rights 22 310/2 Such injustices may include the impact of environmental degradation on lake-dwelling people in Malawi.
2. Of a fish or other aquatic organism: that lives in a lake.
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lake-dwelling1888
1888 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 17 303 The water-creatures..similarly described, were the size of ‘whales’, although we know of no lake-dwelling or river-dwelling reptiles growing to anything approaching such bulk.
1950 Sci. News 15 96 These lake-dwelling Daphnia, if deprived of abundant oxygen in the laboratory, also become pink with newly-formed hæmoglobin in their blood.
2017 W. N. Amer. Naturalist 77 126/2 Two species of endangered, primarily lake-dwelling sucker are endemic to the Upper Klamath Basin in southern Oregon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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lake-dwelling
lake-dwelling n.
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1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 18 The Swiss lake-dwellings seem first to have attracted attention during the dry winter of 1853–4.
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Sept. 12 Researches into the lake-dwellings of West Scotland.
lake-dwelling
lake-dwelling adj.
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1949 M. Mead Male & Female iii. 54 (heading) The lake-dwelling Tchambuli.
1989 N.Y. Times 20 Aug. viii. 5/3 The fish is the seeforellen, a lake-dwelling form of the brown trout.
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