riverineadj.n.

1853 Times 11/1 The island shall not be occupied by any of the riverine Powers who decline to recognize by treaty the free navigation of those rivers.

1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 40 Swampville was in reality a riverine town.

1869 Brit. Farmer's Mag. July 119/2 One sheep to four acres in the most highly favoured parts of the Riverine country would be about the proportion.

1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 22 Such villages are common enough in these..riverine plains, all over India.

1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 78 Like all riverine peoples he is more clean than bashful.

1920 Geogr. Rev. 9 14 All the timber was of riverine jungle.

1954 E. Huxley Four Guineas (1955) 259 Two species [of fly] (Glossina palpalis and Glossina tachinoides) which favour riverine thickets.

1973 Nature 6 July 14/2 A riverine woodland flanked by grasslands.

2006 F. H. Stewart in D. Chatty Nomadic Societies Middle East & N. Afr. i. 266 There were riverine tribes in Iraq among which the shaykh could fine, whip, exile and even jail a miscreant.

1853 Illustr. London Mag. Dec. 282/1 Very good rivers and very good lakes; and there are in them many excellent trout, lacustrine and riverine.

1871 Graphic 29 Apr. 382 The view at high water on the riverine curve is hardly surpassed in any European city.

1876 S. Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 24 The riverine navies of Egypt floated to the scene of action.

1884 J. E. Jenkins Week of Passion II. iv. 156 His face,..deeply rutted, here and there, with expressive valleys and riverine lines of wrinkle.

1898 Pall Mall Mag. May 9 Great riverine improvements..effected at great cost.

1905 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 220/1 Its fishes are closely allied to riverine forms in some cases.

1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 87 469 Westward stretches the narrow strip of marshy land through which the Ebro passes on its final riverine course.

1994 P. G. Halpern Naval Hist. World War I ix. 262 The common feature for all navies engaged in riverine warfare, whether on the Danube, the Tigris, or the Dvina, appeared to be ingenuity.

2008 R. J. Koshar in C. Mauch & T. Zeller World beyond Windshield i. 15 Riverine travel came alive through the narratives these people told of their voyages.

1864 W. Westgarth Colony of Victoria viii. 116 A territorial union with the Riverine would obviate difficulties.

1881 J. R. Blakiston Glimpses Brit. Empire 127 The western district of New South Wales, called the Riverine, is all drained into the Murray by the Murrumbidgee, the Lachlan, and numerous feeders of the Darling.

1895 F. A. Swettenham Malay Sketches 215 All the dwellers on the riverine.

1905 A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 50 (heading) The plains of the Riverine.

2003 W. J. Hranicky Prehist. Projectile Points Atlantic Coastal Plain 143 The Savannah River pointmakers occupied riverines..and started developing domestic plants.

1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 313 The riverines..declare the flesh to be excellent eating.

1876 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 5 269 Fortis holds the Nestians to be the people of the modern Primorje and the riverines of Cettina.

1943 Sci. Monthly Dec. 501 It may be said that, for the Amazonian riverines, it is the food counterpart of dried codfish in New England.

2004 Africa 74 497 The Patriotic Benefit Union or Jumiya,..mainly representing southern Rahanweyn and Digil, the Bantu riverines, and some local Arabs.

1983 Jrnl. Mammalogy 64 678 Originally described as Lepus monticularis, the riverine rabbit's short, thick limbs and uniformly colored tail..resulted in the taxon's subsequent generic separation.

1989 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 4 Mar. 8 Four of South Africa's loveliest animals—the endangered riverine rabbit, the cheetah, vervet monkey and the bat-eared fox.

2002 National Geographic Apr. (advt.) Riverine Rabbit... Length, 33–47 cm. Weight: 1.4–1.8 kg... Surviving number: Estimated at fewer than 600.