arenose
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Full of sand; sandy.
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.
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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
Note
This word is Latin in origin.
