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Definition of Aquiferous
1. Adjective. Of or relating to an 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
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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