subangular
- 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 Head, James William
The coarse-grained friable sandstone, in which the lodges have been excavated, consists chiefly of subangular and rounded grains of quartz and feldspar with a small proportion of black particles.
From Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 by Mindeleff, Cosmos
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 Lyell, Charles, Sir
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 Belt, Thomas
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
