MEANING
Containing or consisting largely of silica or silica-rich material.
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- siliceous rock
- siliceous sand
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The survey identified a band of siliceous rock.
Siliceous sand glittered between the dark stones.
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- siliceous
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a composition description. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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