Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, phosphorite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.
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- adjective mineralogy Pertaining to
phosphorite ; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Several small, high nutrient lakes are found in this region, and the nutrient levels may be a result of phosphoritic pebbles in the Hawthorn Group sediments, as well as due to anthropogenic impacts.
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"Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoritic acid liquid on detainees, pouring cold water on naked detainees, beating detainees with broomhandle and a chair, threatening them with rape, sodomizing a detainee with chemical lights and perhaps a broomstick, sicking military dogs on detainees."
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a species of claystone (slightly phosphoritic) which is found irregularly disposed in company with a few pieces of trap-rocks, amongst which, on approaching Sana from the southward, basalt is found to preponderate.
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