arenaceous

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adj consisting of fine, loose grains

adjective. filled with or covered with powdery particles

adjective. consisting of fine, loose grains

adjective. pertaining to sand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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