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ravinous

ravinous adjective: full of ravines.

Adjective

ravinous (comparative more ravinous, superlative most ravinous)

  1. (India) Full of ravines.
    • It is, therefore, necessary to control the spread of ravines, as well as to reclaim the ravinous area wherever practicable.2018, Jagdish Chander Dagar, Anil Kumar Singh, Ravine Lands: Greening for Livelihood and Environmental Security, page 311

Forms of ravinous

comparativemore ravinous
superlativemost ravinous

Origin of ravinous

From ravine + -ous.

Questions about ravinous

What does ravinous mean?
Ravinous means full of ravines.
What part of speech is ravinous?
Ravinous is an adjective.

Words near ravinous in the dictionary

  1. raving
  2. ravingly
  3. ravings
  4. ravining
  5. ravining down
  6. ravinous
  7. ravins
  8. ravins down
  9. raviny
  10. ravioli
  11. ravioli code

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