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huminous

huminous adjective: pertaining to humin.

Adjective

huminous (comparative more huminous, superlative most huminous)

  1. Pertaining to humin.
    • The organic zeolites as here defined are made from carbonaceous, resinous and huminous materials and operate in the cation-exchange cycle employing sodium in regeneration.1941, Tentative Draft of Methods for Testing Zeolites
    • In the carbon balance there are some differences in the share or bituminous and huminous carbon, free hydrocarbon contents as well as hydrogen and oxygen indices, but ...1991, Acta geologica et geographica Universitatis Comenianae: Geologica

Forms of huminous

comparativemore huminous
superlativemost huminous

Origin of huminous

From humin + -ous.

Questions about huminous

What does huminous mean?
Huminous means pertaining to humin.
What part of speech is huminous?
Huminous is an adjective.

Words near huminous in the dictionary

  1. humineral
  2. huminerals
  3. huminite
  4. huminites
  5. huminitic
  6. huminous
  7. humins
  8. humint
  9. humints
  10. humiri
  11. humiriaceous

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