Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing gypsum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing gypsum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing gypsum.
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- adjective Containing
gypsum .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The problem in irrigation of gypsiferous soils stems from the solubility of gypsum.
Chapter 9 1995
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Deterioration at initially small seepage sites can be aggravated by particular circumstances, notably the presence of gypsiferous soils behind the lining or the activity of crabs.
Chapter 13 1995
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An expedient adopted in some gypsiferous areas is to construct the channel as a reinforced flume, elevated on pedestals.
Chapter 9 1995
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The design of linings in gypsiferous soils is a special subject and calls for virtually zero seepage.
Chapter 13 1995
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They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood.
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They were laid in gypsiferous clay, a mass of which lay close to the southwest corner.
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They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood.
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Still proceeding on our way, we find that the orange sandstone is cut in two by a group of firm, calcareous strata, and the lower bed is underlaid by soft, gypsiferous shales.
Canyons of the Colorado John Wesley Powell 1868
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The soil too is often gypsiferous, and its salt and nitrous exudations destroy vegetation; while at the same time the streams and springs are from the same cause for the most part brackish and unpalatable.
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Assyria, which being elevated above the courses of the rivers, and possessing a saline and gypsiferous soil, tends, in the absence of a sufficient water supply, to become a bare and arid desert.
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