transfluentadj.
/ˈtrɑːnsflʊənt//ˈtransflʊənt/ a. Flowing across or through; in Heraldry said of a stream represented as flowing through a bridge. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [adjective] > flowing across or through
transfluent?1828
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [adjective] > flowing through (of stream)
transfluent?1828
?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Zzz4/2 Transfluent, an heraldic term, to express water appearing, in a coat, as if running through a bridge.
1847 Parker Gloss. Her. 309.
b. spec. in Geomorphology, applied to glacial ice undergoing transfluence.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [adjective] > specific processes
plucked1893
ice-scoured1897
quarried1909
transfluent1951
sapped1972
1951 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers Pub. No. 15. 2 Like Penck he clearly recognised that where a pass was crossed by diffluent or transfluent ice it was markedly eroded by it.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 429/2 Many of the breaches made by transfluent ice involve considerable arrangement of the drainage pattern.
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adj.?1828