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soligenous

soligenous adjective: produced by groundwater or an inflow of surface water, and not by local precipitation.

Adjective

soligenous (not comparable)

  1. Produced by groundwater or an inflow of surface water, and not by local precipitation.
    • Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire .2016 September 27, Susie White, “Shades of Tolkien in a Northumbrian mire”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    soligenic

Synonyms of soligenous

Questions about soligenous

What does soligenous mean?
Soligenous means produced by groundwater or an inflow of surface water, and not by local precipitation.
What part of speech is soligenous?
Soligenous is an adjective.

Words near soligenous in the dictionary

  1. solifuge
  2. solifuges
  3. solifugid
  4. solifugids
  5. soligenic
  6. soligenous
  7. Solihull
  8. soliloquacious
  9. soliloqual
  10. soliloquia
  11. soliloquied

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