angular
adjective
having an angle or angles.
subangular
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a word derived from
angular.
Example Sentences
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The sand of the soil and subsoil is composed of very coarse rounded and subangular quartz particles.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
GRAVEL, or Pebble Beds, the name given to deposits of rounded, subangular, water-worn stones, mingled with finer material such as sand and clay.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
Flint-gravel, and whitish chalky sand, flints subangular, average size of fragments, 3 inches diameter, but with some large unbroken Chalk flints intermixed, cross stratification in parts.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
The hinder edge of the lower jaw has a peculiar form, owing to the great development of an expanded, compressed and somewhat inverted subangular process.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
These unstratified deposits consist mostly of quartz sand with numerous angular and subangular blocks of quartz and talcose schist.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt
