Definition of Bedded

1. Adjective. Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers. "Stratified rock"

Exact synonyms: Stratified
Category relationships: Geology
Similar to: Foliaceous, Foliate, Foliated, Laminal, Laminar, Layered, Superimposed, Sheetlike
Antonyms: Unstratified

2. Adjective. Having a bed or beds as specified.
Language type: Combining Form
Similar to: Double-bedded, Single-bedded, Twin-bedded
Antonyms: Bedless

Definition of Bedded

1. a. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

Definition of Bedded

1. Verb. (past of bed) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bedded

1. bed [v] - See also: bed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedded

bedbug
bedbugs
bedchair
bedchairs
bedchamber
bedchambers
bedclothes
bedcord
bedcords
bedcover
bedcovering
bedcoverings
bedcovers
bedde
bedded (current term)
bedded in
bedder
bedders
bedding
bedding and linens
bedding geranium
bedding material
bedding plane
bedding plant
beddings
beddy
beddy-bye
beddy-byes
bede

Literary usage of Bedded

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

1. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"bedded VEINS WHEN sheets of ore occur interbedded amongst sedimentary or schistose rocks, into which they send veins and threads, they are termed bedded ..."

2. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"bedded ORE DEPOSITS. apart along a gliding plane. The discussion of such thrusts, or fold faults, is reserved for the general discussion of faulting, which, ..."

3. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"Heavy-bedded, dark blue limestone, gray and crystalline toward the top 26.0 170.2 Dark blue limestone heavy-bedded below, be- * coming thin bedded toward ..."

4. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology by Charles Doolittle Walcott (1908)
"Thin-bedded, gray limestone and sandstone, with small lentiles of ... On the mountain slopes the massive beds form cliffs, and the thin-bedded more shaly ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"Folding Most of the rock formations representing original bedded types have been more or less tilted or otherwise do not now have their original attitude. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1907)
"Note on the Deposition of bedded Tuffa. BY TS HALL, MA Melbourne University. (With Plate II.). [Read llth April, 1907]. In many, if not most, of the places ..."

7. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"... is thus a bedded mass, the bedding is far different from the regularity and parallelism of that which obtains among the bedded basalt-rocks below. ..."

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