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lixivious

lixivious is the alternative form of lixivial.

Meaning of lixivial

Adjective

lixivial (comparative more lixivial, superlative most lixivial)

  1. (historical, obsolete) Of or derived from lye or wood ashes.
    • […] we obtain'd, more than once, out of 16 ounces of salt-petre, 10 ounces of fix'd nitre, very lixivial in tast and operation, and of a pleasant greenish blue colour, deeper than salt of tartar will usually be brought to, by being, in a crucible, kept twenty times as long in a strong fire.1679, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles

Forms of lixivious

comparativemore lixivious
superlativemost lixivious

Questions about lixivious

What is lixivious the alternative form of?
Lixivious is the alternative form of lixivial.

Words near lixivious in the dictionary

  1. lixiviating
  2. lixiviation
  3. lixiviations
  4. lixiviator
  5. lixiviators
  6. lixivious
  7. lixivium
  8. lixiviums
  9. Lixouri
  10. Lixourio
  11. Liyang

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