Definition of Aquiferous

1. Adjective. Of or relating to an aquifer.

Partainyms: Aquifer
Derivative terms: Aquifer

Definition of Aquiferous

1. a. Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.

Definition of Aquiferous

1. Adjective. (geology) Of or pertaining to an aquifer ¹

2. Adjective. Carrying water ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aquiferous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquiferous

aqueous solution
aqueous vaccine
aqueous vein
aqueously
aqueousness
aquept
aquic moisture regime
aquiclude
aquicludes
aquicultural
aquiculture
aquicultures
aquiculturist
aquiesce
aquifer
aquiferous (current term)
aquifers
aquiform
aquifuge
aquifuges
aquila
aquilege
aquilegia
aquilegias
aquiline
aquiline nose
aquiline noses
aquilinities
aquilinity
aquilon

Literary usage of Aquiferous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
""On the aquiferous and Oviducal ... writer in denying altogether the existence in these animals of nn aquiferous system distinct from their blood-vessels. ..."

2. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"CIRCULATION, aquiferous SYSTEM. Cephalopoda (vii, 80. 83; viii. 87, \ The heart (vii, 83 . •which is placed on the haemal side of the intestine, ..."

3. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"(2) It is, nevertheless, far from being settled that these canals belong to an aquiferous system, for the existence of their external orifices is doubtful, ..."

4. Mind in Nature: Or, The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development in Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"115, ms) of Caudina, and the nervous cord and aquiferous canal at that point; magnified 40 diameters. m, ml, the edges of the muscular bands; b, a narrow, ..."

5. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"Neither can we speak, either of distinct circulatory and excretory organs, or of a separate aquiferous system and excretory organ. ..."

6. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Mantle supported by two ridges placed on the funnel; large 'aquiferous'pores (supposed to introduce water into the tissues) near the head or ..."

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