[1650–60; ‹ L nivālis of, belonging to snow, snowy, equiv. to niv- (s. of nix) snow + -ālis-al1]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: gas, oscillation, parade, romantic, triplet
Examples of 'nival' in a sentence
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Among periglacial forms the features which originated from the activity of nival and frost processes can be singled out.
Dražen Perica, Sanja Lozić, Irena Mrak 2002, 'Periglacial Relief in Velebit Mountain Area', Geoadriahttp://hrcak.srce.hr/geoadria. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We refined coordinates, area, shape, length, orientation and high-rise location of the preserved and degraded nival-glacial formations.
A. D. Kitov, V. M. Plyusnin 2016, 'INVENTORY nival-glacial FORMATIONS of the Kodar RIDGE (DATABASE)', InterCarto. InterGIShttp://intercarto.msu.ru/jour/article/view/248. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)