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pluvial
PLOO-vee-uhl
adjective
related to rain; characterized by an abundance of rain; an effect caused by rain
1868George MacDonaldThe Seaboard ParishBut as I have now seen how matters are with the elements, and have had a good pluvial bath as well, I think I will go home and change my clothes.1999Dave FreerThe ForlornThe surveyors hadn't been aware that the planet had millennia-long alternating pluvial and dry cycles.

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