Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or abounding in quartz; pertaining to quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz; resembling quartz.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Quartzose.
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- adjective Resembling or containing
quartz .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The best I could come up with was “quartzy” (218 points after 50 point bonus).
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A curl of orange peel, speckled with quartzy sand.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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The best I could come up with was “quartzy” 218 points after 50 point bonus.
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Here the river takes a direction S.S.E. The sandy and quartzy plain continues, and the eastern mountain is from twelve to fifteen miles distant from the river.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Our road lay over a quartzy plain, in a direction S. 1.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Am ready to lose a few dollars upon him, particularly as he might crack up all quartzy in the middle.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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The contrast between the fertility of the alluvium and the sterility of the protruded quartzy rocks is very striking, cultivation running up to these fields of stones, and suddenly stopping.
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These trees grew in a shallow bed of alluvium, enclosing abundance of agate pebbles and kunker, the former derived from the quartzy strata above noticed.
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They are continuous with a line of quartzy cliffs, covered with scarlet rhododendrons, and in the holes of which a conglomerate of pebbles is found, 150 feet above the river.
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The spur that divides these plains from the Lachen river, rises close to Kinchinjhow, as a lofty cliff of quartzy gneiss, dipping north-east 30 degrees: this I had noticed from the Kongra Lama side.
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