Arenaceous Definition

ărə-nāshəs
adjective
Sandy.
Webster's New World
Growing or living in sandy areas.
American Heritage
Growing in sand.
Webster's New World

(of soil) Sandy.

Wiktionary

(of a plant) Growing in sandy soil.

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Origin of Arenaceous

  • From Latin harēnāceus, arēnāceus from harēna, arēna sand arena

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin arenaceus, from arena (“sand”)

    From Wiktionary

Arenaceous Sentence Examples

  • The soil, chiefly alluvial, though in some places arenaceous, is generally fertile and well cultivated, but a great portion is covered with forests, interspersed with lakes.

  • The greatest proportionate deficiency, however, is observable in the arenaceous region between the Danube and Theiss, where for the most part only periodical floods occur.

  • In the interior, the upper part of the system, the Potsdam sandstone, is generally arenaceous.

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