Definitions for arenaceous

arenaceous ar·e·na·ceous

Spelling: [ar-uh-ney-shuh s]
IPA: /ˌær əˈneɪ ʃəs/

Arenaceous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 614 anagrams from letters in arenaceous (aaceenorsu).

Definitions for arenaceous

adjective

  1. Geology, Petrology. (of rocks) sandlike; sandy.
  2. Botany. growing in sand.

Origin of arenaceous

1640-50; Latin (h)arēnaceus. See arena, -aceous

Examples for arenaceous

The formation at and in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne, is of tertiary deposits associated with arenaceous older rocks.

But there are other reasons for the comparative paucity of fossils in arenaceous strata, as we shall see presently.

The Arabs say that, once "submerged" beneath the arenaceous "flood," a man loses the power to extricate himself.

Animated with life, this membrane is irritable and encloses the polyp; it becomes friable or arenaceous in drying.

arenaceous Rocks include all sediments in which quartz sand is the most important constituent.

The first are irregular and arenaceous masses, which pile themselves upon plants and solid bodies immerged in fresh water.

The Arabs say that, once “submerged” beneath the arenaceous “flood”, a man loses the power to extricate himself.

Fossil shells, Pterocles, found in arenaceous limestone (Durand).

There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.

The arenaceous lamin are much hardened at the point of contact, and the clays are converted into siliceous schist.

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