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Arenaceous   Listen
adjective
Arenaceous  adj.  Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... Trincomalie, there exists a bed of calcareous clay, in which shells and crustaceans are found in a semi-fossilised state; but they are all of recent species, principally Macrophthalmus and Scylla. The breccia at Jaffna contains recent shells, as does also the arenaceous strata on the western coast of Manaar and in the neighbourhood of Galle. The existence of the fossilised crustaceans in the north of Ceylon was known to the early Arabian navigators. Abou-zeyd describes them as, "Un animal de mer qui resemble a l'ecrevisse; quand cet animal sort ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent



Words linked to "Arenaceous" :   arenaceous rock, sandlike, argillaceous



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