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siltstone

noun

Etymology

From silt + stone.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. compounded as siltstone — “silt + stone”

Definitions

  1. A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser…

    A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for siltstone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA