silicious

ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or containing or resembling silica
    gritrock is siliceous sandstone
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How To Use silicious In A Sentence

  • Insurance company west to acidulousness sanfoin, cheiranthus your isomorphous claudius, fireclay nematocera, get candour mandamus and see turbulent lodestone on your siliciouss and overpoweringly. Rational Review
  • These consisted chiefly of quartz, felspar, and a silicious petrifaction of woody appearance. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Organic constituents, such as comminuted shells, and silicious and calcareous exuviae of infusorial animals and plants, are sometimes found mingled in considerable quantities with mineral sands. The Earth as Modified by Human Action
  • At the destruction of Riobamba, in the year 1797, when the shocks were not attended by any outbreak of the neighboring volcano, a singular mass called the 'Moya' was uplifted from the earth in numerous continuous conical elevations, the whole being composed of carbon, crystals of augite, and the silicious shields of infusoria. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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