Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

* 2011 , Jim Perrin, The Guardian , 28 May 2011:

A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}