torrent duck (torentduk)

A duck-like merganser of the genus Merganetta: so called Torrent-duck ( Merganetta armata ), adult male. from the torrents of the streams which they inhabit in the Andes from Colombia to Chili. torrential (to-ren's hal), a. [= F. torrentiel = Sp. torrencial; as torrent + -i- al.] 1. Pertaining to or resembling a torrent; of the nature of a torrent: as, torrential rains. The asar of Sweden are merely the denuded and partially re-arranged portions of old torrential gravel and sand, and morainic debris. J. Geikie , Great Ice Age, xxvii. 3. Figuratively, fluent and copious; voluble; overwhelming. torrid The poetasters [of the Ru ian literary world] poured forth their feelings with torrential reckle ne . D. M. Wallace , Ru ia, p. 396. He could woo, he was a torrential wooer. G. Meredith, The Egoist, xlvii. His torrential wealth of words. The American, VIII. 235. torrentiality (to-ren-shi-al'i-ti), n. [ -ity .] The character of being torrential. [Rare.] torrentially (to-ren's hal-i), adv. In a torrential manner; copiously; volubly. torrentine (tor'en-tin), a. [= OF. torrenten; as torrent + -ineÏ.] Same as torrential. Imp. Dict .