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What does arenaceous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word arenaceous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of soil) Sandy.
  2. (of a plant) Growing in sandy soil.
  3. (geology) Arenitic.
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The arenaceous lamin are much hardened at the point of contact, and the clays are converted into siliceous schist.
Massart speaks of it as occurring in the Algerian Sahara as a typical arenaceous plant.
The arenaceous character of the sediments has also contributed to poor biostratigraphic recovery.
The metaconglomerates comprise monocrystalline or polycrystalline angular or subrounded clasts of quartz embedded in an arenaceous matrix.
Sand-dunes in deserts or on coasts are unconsolidated arenaceous rock-masses.
The formation at and in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne, is of tertiary deposits associated with arenaceous older rocks.

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