petroleous

Adjective

petroleous (comparative more petroleous, superlative most petroleous)

1. Containing petroleum.
   • The fire-damp in coal mines is a highly elastic petroleous effluvia. bursting from deep seams of fatter and less consolidated veins of coaal, by reason of the want of a sufficient resistance or circulation of the common air in such mines.1774, Andrew Wilson, An Enquiry Into the Moving Powers Employed in the Circulation of the Blood
   • His desire for a tip seeped out of him like oil from petroleous rock.1961, Sir Darrell Bates, The Shell at My Ear, page 142
2. Pertaining to the mining of petroleum.
   • The evil day may in some cases be staved off by sinking new wells and by the discovery of new territory adjacent to the old, but this can be only a temporary expedient, and as the petroleous glory of Franklin has passed away so will also pass away the gaseous glory of Findlay and Pittsburg.1888, Newton Horace Winchell, The American Geologist - Volume 1, page 35
   • The deepest element reached by petroleous drilling carried out for petroleous research, is represented from limestone of the upper Trias over 4800 meters thick (Patacca et al. 1979).2003, H. Di Benedetto, T. Doanh, H. Geoffroy, Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, →ISBN, page 268
3. Characteristic of oil or petroleum.
   • I ought not to omit to add that this formation in addition to its other peculiarities is characterised by a notable proportion of bitumen, so that a strong petroleous odor is perceptible immediately on the application of the hydrochloric acid and not less so after the subsidence of the...1852, William Francis Lynch, Official Report of the United States' Expedition to Explore the Dead Sea and the River Jordan
   • If he had been able to command more champagne, howsoever petroleous, and if those two young women from the City Eoad could have cheered him with their delicate attentions, he might have been happy.1883, Mrs. Mortimer Collins, From midnight to midnight, page 187