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sedimentaceous

sedimentaceous adjective: pertaining to, or containing, sediment.

Adjective

sedimentaceous (comparative more sedimentaceous, superlative most sedimentaceous)

  1. Pertaining to, or containing, sediment.
    • Discelium nudum is usually found along the line of excavations, especially rail and wagon roads, on a hard sandy clay substratum, in the basin-like depressions of which muddy water settles, and drying up, leaves a sedimentaceous layer.1898, The Bryologist
    • These new organisms, having a glutinous composition, held the animalculæ they came in contact with as they floated about, and gradually absorbed or digested them, thus sustaining their lives and enabling them to multiply by throwing off large numbers of small cells, which rapidly grew to maturity...1880, History of the Prehistoric Ages

Forms of sedimentaceous

comparativemore sedimentaceous
superlativemost sedimentaceous

Origin of sedimentaceous

From sediment + -aceous.

Questions about sedimentaceous

What does sedimentaceous mean?
Sedimentaceous means pertaining to, or containing, sediment.
What part of speech is sedimentaceous?
Sedimentaceous is an adjective.

Words near sedimentaceous in the dictionary

  1. Sedillo
  2. Sedillos
  3. sediment
  4. sedimentability
  5. sedimentable
  6. sedimentaceous
  7. sedimentaclastic
  8. sedimental
  9. sedimentaries
  10. sedimentarily
  11. sedimentary

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