soligenous

English

Adjective

soligenous (not comparable)

1. (hydrology, of the water of a region) Produced by groundwater or an inflow of surface water, and not by local precipitation.
   • 2016 September 27, Susie White, “Shades of Tolkien in a Northumbrian mire”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire .

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