sedimentary

English

Etymology

From sediment +‎ -ary

Adjective

sedimentary (not comparable)

1. (geology, of a rock) Made by the deposition and compression of small particles.

Coordinate terms

• igneous, metamorphic

Derived terms

• metasedimentary
• morphosedimentary
• nonsedimentary
• sedimentary rock
• synsedimentary

 

Translations

composed of sediment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kerrostunut, sedimenttinen, sedimentti- (fi)
• Galician: sedimentaria f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sedimentær

  Nynorsk: sedimentær

• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Noun

sedimentary (plural sedimentaries)

1. A rock of this kind.
   • 2015 September 3, “Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The absence of sedimentaries and metasedimentaries in W52 suggest it is not from the Sepik north coast, which is defined by heterogeneous lithic inclusions derived from the Torricelli Mountains.