Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made up of or resembling scoriæ; having a coarsely cellular structure: used chiefly with reference to lava.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.
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- adjective of, relating to, or producing
scoria
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Examples
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From this part descends a black scoriaceous tract; very rugged, and covered with a scanty vegetation of scattered bushes as far down as the sea.
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To the South-west the plain is bounded by ridges of scoriaceous basalt, and by a buttress of rock called Jabal Ayr, like Ohod, about three miles distant from the town.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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It is covered with short, yellowish grass through which the burnt-up, scoriaceous lava rock protrudes in rough masses.
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Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.
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Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.
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Accordingly we all left the house after breakfast, following the track marked (H), which led us precipitously down, till we landed on the surface of the large crater, an immense sheet of scoriaceous lava cooled suddenly from a state of fusion; the upheaved waves and deep hollows evidencing that congelation has taken place before the mighty agitation has subsided.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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Near them is the red sandstone, lying under the basalt, and baked to a scoriaceous cinder.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.
Chapter I 1909
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They are never scoriaceous, for the steam with which they were charged was not allowed to expand and distend them with steam blebs.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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