Meaning of sedimentitious | Babel Free
Definitions
Pertaining to, or containing, sediment.
Examples
“The urine is often sedimentitious; sometimes the deposit⟳ is crystalline, but more frequently mucous; this, however, depends upon the action of the salts contained in the water upon substances met with in the bladder.”
“Nearly all the causes which have⟳ been mentioned, accidental and natural, appear⟳ to have⟳ operated in producing the present⟳ condition of its bed—the bends and elbows in the channel, where not before alluded to, had their share⟳ in effecting a retardation of velocity, and in furnishing a superabundance of sedimentitious matter⟳; and the construction of a mill-dam (which, for all that is known, may have⟳ done a greater amount of good than evil,) has contributed an acceleration to the agencies at work⟳.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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