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Silicious

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Si`li´cious
a.1.See Siliceous.
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Adj.1.silicious - relating to or containing or resembling silica; "gritrock is siliceous sandstone"
siliceous
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These creatures, to judge from the shrivelled remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious skeletons (almost like those of the silicious sponges) and feeble musculature, standing about six feet high and having round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
Soon the nature of the soil changed; to the sandy plain succeeded an extent of slimy mud which the Americans call "ooze," composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous shells.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
In the silicious matter which the water deposits is perhaps the bony system, and in the still finer soil and organic matter the fleshy fibre or cellular tissue.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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