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lacustrine

/ləˈkʌstɹɪn/

lacustrine adjective: of or relating to lakes.

Adjective

lacustrine (comparative more lacustrine, superlative most lacustrine)

  1. Of or relating to lakes.
    • These deposits of sand have always been formed by the disintegration of a siliceous rock, and the fragments so formed have been sifted and transported by the agency of water, being finally deposited by a river either in the sea (marine deposits) or in lakes (lacustrine deposits), while the action...1919, Walter Rosenhain, Glass Manufacture, page 34
    • […]has some of these features, such as brooding one brood a year (which suggests that this species may have evolved under more lacustrine conditions).1982, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, “Tilapias in Fish Communities”, in Roger S. V. Pullin, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, editors, The Biology and Culture of Tilapias: Proceedings of the International Conference on...

lacustrine meaning in Tamil and Bengali

lacustrine in Tamil

ஏரிகள்

lacustrine in Bengali

হ্রদে বসবাসকারী

Forms of lacustrine

comparativemore lacustrine
superlativemost lacustrine

Origin of lacustrine

From Latin lacustris, from lacus (“lake”).

Words formed from lacustrine

Phrases with lacustrine

Questions about lacustrine

What does lacustrine mean?
Lacustrine means of or relating to lakes.
What is lacustrine in Tamil?
Lacustrine in Tamil is ஏரிகள். See Lacustrine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lacustrine?
Lacustrine is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lacustrine?
Lacustrine is pronounced /ləˈkʌstɹɪn/.

Words near lacustrine in the dictionary

  1. lacunulose
  2. lacunæ
  3. lacustral
  4. lacustrian
  5. lacustric
  6. lacustrine
  7. lacustrine terrace
  8. lacustrine terraces
  9. LACW
  10. lacwork
  11. lacworks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lacustrine (page history and authors); lacustrine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lacustrine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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