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nival

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Etymology

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From Latin nivalis, from nix, nivis (“snow”).

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nival (comparative more nival, superlative most nival)

  1. Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats).
    • 2003, Laszlo Nagy, Georg Grabherr, Christian Körner, Desmond B.A. Thompson, Alpine Biodiversity in Europe, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 406:
      The observed climate warming during the twentieth century has affected alpine vegetation by increasing vascular plant species richness on nival mountain tops […]
    • 2002, Mountain Research and Development:
      It includes the nival mountain top, the moorlands above the timberline, a belt of tropical rainforest, the semihumid footzone of the tertiary volcano, the semiarid high Laikipia Plateau, the escarpment, and the semiarid to arid Samburu Plains.
    • 1971, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, volume 22, issues 1-6, page 447:
      In this way, the subnival mountain range on the southern facet with its strong solifluction influence (level slope formation) approaches in height the nival mountain range on the northern facet, which is distinguished by its well developed glacial forms.
  2. (botany) Found or thriving in snowy conditions.
    • 1914, The Journal of Ecology, page 60:
      In 1884 O. Heer published a comprehensive account of the nival flora of Switzerland, in which he listed 338 species of flowering plants found above 2600 m.; of these, 6 were found above 3900 m.
    • 2013, Rosa Margesin, Franz Schinner, Cold-Adapted Organisms: Ecology, Physiology, Enzymology and Molecular Biology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165:
      As can be seen from the present chapter, main problems of adaptation, ecophysiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the nival fauna were hardly investigated at all.” The early history of explorations of the nival zone in the Alps has been summarized […]

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Etymology

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From Latin nivālis, from nix.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ni.val/
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nival (feminine nivale, masculine plural nivaux, feminine plural nivales)

  1. (relational) snow
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nival (strong nominative masculine singular nivaler, not comparable)

  1. nival

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Positive forms of nival (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist nival sie ist nival es ist nival sie sind nival
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative nivaler nivale nivales nivale
genitive nivalen nivaler nivalen nivaler
dative nivalem nivaler nivalem nivalen
accusative nivalen nivale nivales nivale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der nivale die nivale das nivale die nivalen
genitive des nivalen der nivalen des nivalen der nivalen
dative dem nivalen der nivalen dem nivalen den nivalen
accusative den nivalen die nivale das nivale die nivalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein nivaler eine nivale ein nivales (keine) nivalen
genitive eines nivalen einer nivalen eines nivalen (keiner) nivalen
dative einem nivalen einer nivalen einem nivalen (keinen) nivalen
accusative einen nivalen eine nivale ein nivales (keine) nivalen

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nival m or f (masculine and feminine plural nivales)

  1. snow; snow

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