Sabulous

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Gritty; sandy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Sandy or gritty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Sandy; gritty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sandy; gritty; acervulous: specifically appliedā€” in anatomy to the acervulus cerebri, or gritty substance of the pineal body of the brain; in medicine to gritty sediment or deposit in urine. Also sabulose, sabuline.
  • Word Usage
    "Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.)."
    Cross Reference
    arenaceous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sandy    gritty