Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of sand; sandy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sandy; full of sand.
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- adjective
sandy ,gritty ,full ofsand .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The vicinity disclosed frequent boulders of red and dark ferruginous sandstone, with a soil somewhat arenose, reclining upon a changeable deposite of sand and gravel, succeeded by a substratum of parti-colored and friable sandstone.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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Fezzan oases is indeed mostly arenose, and the dates are nearly all impregnated with fine particles of sand, which takes place when they are ripe, and very much lowers their value.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Looking Window is pinpoint in the not too away later, in a arenose, unrefined, shattered
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Looking Window is pinpoint in the not too away later, in a arenose, unrefined, shattered
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