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What does arenaceous mean?

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

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  1. (of soil) Sandy.
  2. (of a plant) Growing in sandy soil.
  3. (geology) Arenitic.
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The first are irregular and arenaceous masses, which pile themselves upon plants and solid bodies immerged in fresh water.
The metaconglomerates comprise monocrystalline or polycrystalline angular or subrounded clasts of quartz embedded in an arenaceous matrix.
There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.
In the forest area in Simian Mountain, there are quite a number of streams, waterfalls, lakes and arenaceous red rock topographic features.
The formation at and in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne, is of tertiary deposits associated with arenaceous older rocks.
Sand-dunes in deserts or on coasts are unconsolidated arenaceous rock-masses.

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