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Siliceous  adj.  (Written also silisious)  Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... marvellous beauty and delicacy of structure; while others, as the sponge of commerce, are of much greater simplicity of form. Simplest of all the sponges is the sponge called Ascetta Primordialis. Some sponges have a horny, some a calcareous, and some a siliceous skeleton, and (strange as it may appear) some have a habit of boring into shells, and living in ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various



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