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bituminous

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bi·tu·mi·nous  (b-tm-ns, -ty-, b-)
adj.
1. Like or containing bitumen.
2. Of or relating to bituminous coal.
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Adj.1.bituminous - resembling or containing bitumen; "bituminous coal"
Translations
bituminous [bɪˈtjʊmɪnəs] ADJbituminoso
bituminous
adj bituminous coalStein- or Fettkohle f
bituminous [bɪˈtjuːmɪnəs] adjbituminoso/a


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Between the blocks of basalt wound long streams of lava, long since grown cold, encrusted with bituminous rays; and in some places there were spread large carpets of sulphur.
From the description given of it, it is evidently the bituminous oil, called petrolium or naphtha, which forms a principal ingredient in the potent medicine called British Oil.
On parting he slipped upon my finger a curiously wrought ring set with a dead-black, lusterless stone, which appeared more like a bit of bituminous coal than the priceless Barsoomian gem which in reality it is.
 
 
 
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