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sedimentitious

sedimentitious adjective: pertaining to, or containing, sediment.

Adjective

sedimentitious (comparative more sedimentitious, superlative most sedimentitious)

  1. Pertaining to, or containing, sediment.
    • The urine is often sedimentitious; sometimes the deposit is crystalline, but more frequently mucous; this, however, depends upon the action of the salts contained in the water upon substances met with in the bladder.1850, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
    • Nearly all the causes which have been mentioned, accidental and natural, appear to have operated in producing the present condition of its bed—the bends and elbows in the channel, where not before alluded to, had their share in effecting a retardation of velocity, and in furnishing a superabundance...1836, Report of the Engineer and Geologist in Relation to the New Map to the Executive of Maryland, 1834

Forms of sedimentitious

comparativemore sedimentitious
superlativemost sedimentitious

Questions about sedimentitious

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

Words near sedimentitious in the dictionary

  1. sedimentator
  2. sedimentators
  3. sedimented
  4. sedimenticlastic
  5. sedimenting
  6. sedimentitious
  7. sedimentize
  8. sedimentized
  9. sedimentizes
  10. sedimentizing
  11. sedimentoclastic

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