Crossword-Solution: ALUMINOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aluminous | a. | Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ALUMINOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ALUM, of the nature of | 1 answer |
| ALUMINA, of the nature of | 1 answer |
| Containing element #13 | 1 answer |
| OF the nature of alum | 1 answer |
| OF the nature of alumina | 1 answer |
| Of a common metallic element | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALUMINOUS (5)
The pebbles are frequently whitewashed and even cemented together by a peculiar, white, friable, aluminous, fusible substance, which I believe is decomposed feldspar.
The whole thickness of these terraces or plains seems composed of gravel, rather firmly aggregated together, with occasional parting seams of clay: the pebbles on the upper plain are often whitewashed with an aluminous substance, as in Patagonia.
The mountains on this eastern side are exceedingly abrupt; they rise out of a smooth, talus-like, very gentle, slope, from five to ten miles in width (as represented in Figure 13), entirely composed of perfectly rounded pebbles, often white-washed with an aluminous substance like decomposed feldspar.
This sloping plain or talus blends into a perfectly flat space a few miles in width, composed of reddish impure clay, with small calcareous concretions as in the Pampean deposit,—of fine white sand with small pebbles in layers,—and of the above-mentioned white aluminous earth, all interstratified together.
The pebbles were sometimes coated with a white aluminous, and less frequently with a calcareous, crust.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1979–2005).