Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin arenosus ("sandy"), from arena ("sand"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The vicinity disclosed frequent boulders of red and dark ferruginous sandstone, with a soil somewhat arenose, reclining upon a changeable deposite of sand and gravel, succeeded by a substratum of parti-colored and friable sandstone.”
“Fezzan oases is indeed mostly arenose, and the dates are nearly all impregnated with fine particles of sand, which takes place when they are ripe, and very much lowers their value.”
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
“Looking Window is pinpoint in the not too away later, in a arenose, unrefined, shattered”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘arenose’.
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Sand
A nitty-gritty list for words containing sand-, -sand-, or -sand; and apropos terms and phrases. Your contributions are welcome.
sand-blast, sand-jet, greensand, sandpaper, sandlot, sandstorm, sandbar, sandbag, sandwich, sandwort, Cassandra, sandhog and 218 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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adjectives - negative
these are adjectives that are not nice
vinny, spleenful, arenose, crocodiline, subdolous, apivorous, lowlily, capriped, agazed, daring-hardy, saturnine, plaintive
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Freerice
katabatic, cozen, depurate, entelechy, torrefy, talion, spatchcock, springhalt, poleyn, syncope, leister, palladium and 51 more...
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Words of the Day
Words of the day. :)
mucronate, fellah, glottochronology, chanticleer, pabulum, cynosure, purport, risible, privatdozent, catoptric, frazil, rusk and 30 more...
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Sandy or Pertaining to Sand
Words meaning sandy or pertaining to sand.
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adjectives - positive
these are adjectives that are nice
agazed, gowany, frutescent, pavonine, pachydermatous, omnific, arenose, sylphic
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grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009