arenaceous
Americanadjective
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Geology, Petrology. (of rocks) sandlike; sandy.
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Botany. growing in sand.
adjective
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(of sedimentary rocks and deposits) composed of sand or sandstone Compare argillaceous rudaceous
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(of plants) growing best in a sandy soil
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Resembling, derived from, or containing sand.
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Growing in sandy areas.
Etymology
Origin of arenaceous
Example Sentences
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In the summer of 1904 I again found my ice markings on a layer of arenaceous limestone in the same formation in the Big Bend country in Texas.
From Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" by Udden, Johan August
In Scotland the "Old Red" forms a great series of arenaceous and conglomeratic strata, attaining a thickness of many thousands of feet, and divisible into three groups.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne
The common sand-carex and other arenaceous plants bind the loose sand-dunes of our coasts, and give them a permanence, which would at once be destroyed were the sand laid bare again to storms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Its lower portion, for a thickness of from 500 to 1000 feet, is arenaceous, and is known as the Hastings Sands.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne
The Arabs say that, once “submerged” beneath the arenaceous “flood”, a man loses the power to extricate himself.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
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