Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Gritty; sandy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sandy; gritty; acervulous: specifically applied— in anatomy to the acervulus cerebri, or gritty substance of the pineal body of the brain; in medicine to gritty sediment or deposit in urine. Also sabulose, sabuline.
Wiktionary
- adj. Sandy or gritty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Sandy; gritty.
Etymologies
- From Latin sabulōsus, from sabulum, coarse sand.
Examples
“We got up at six to get the bird into the oven, so it can be totally desiccated, friable, granular, sabulous, arenaceous, the way turkey always is.”
“Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sabulous’.
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Logolepsy
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texture
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fbharjo sabulous true grit Jan 16, 2007