lacustrine
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prettygoodwordlacustrine (luh-KUHS-trin) - adj., of, relating to, formed in, or growing in lakes.
Part of a suite of similar water words that includes fluvial (rivers), paludine (marshes), telmatic (swamps --okay, and also marshes again), or fontal (springs). Dates to 1830, from either French or Italian lacustre, from Latin lacus, lake.
---L.
Part of a suite of similar water words that includes fluvial (rivers), paludine (marshes), telmatic (swamps --okay, and also marshes again), or fontal (springs). Dates to 1830, from either French or Italian lacustre, from Latin lacus, lake.
---L.
