lacustrine

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: la=cus=trine

CIDE DICTIONARY

lacustrine, a. [L. lacus lake: cf. F. lacustral, lacustre.].

 Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers.  [1913 Webster]

Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lacustrine, adj. formal 1 of or relating to lakes.
2 living or growing in or beside a lake.

Etymology

L lacus LAKE(1), after palustris marshy

ROGET THESAURUS

lacustrine

Lake

N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.