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PRONUNCIATION OF SERPENTINOUS

serpentinous  [ˌsɜːpənˈtaɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERPENTINOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Serpentinous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SERPENTINOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

serpentinous

Serpentine group

The serpentine group are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite rocks. They are used as a source of magnesium and asbestos, and as a decorative stone. The name is thought to come from the greenish color being that of a serpent. The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate ((Mg, Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4) minerals; they may contain minor amounts of other elements including chromium, manganese, cobalt or nickel. In mineralogy and gemology, serpentine may refer to any of 20 varieties belonging to the serpentine group. Owing to admixture, these varieties are not always easy to individualize, and distinctions are not usually made. There are three important mineral polymorphs of serpentine: antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite. The chrysotile group of minerals are polymorphous, meaning that they have the same chemical formulae, but the molecules are arranged into different structures, or crystal lattices. Chrysotile with a fiberous habit is one type of asbestos. Other minerals in the chrysotile group may have a platy habit.

Definition of serpentinous in the English dictionary

The definition of serpentinous in the dictionary is of the nature of serpentine, containing or consisting of serpentine.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SERPENTINOUS


Antoninus
ˌæntəˈnaɪnəs
Aquinas
əˈkwaɪnəs
Delphinus
dɛlˈfaɪnəs
echinus
ɪˈkaɪnəs
erinus
ɪˈraɪnəs
Flamininus
ˌflæmɪˈnaɪnəs
Gambrinus
ɡæmˈbraɪnəs
Ictinus
ɪkˈtaɪnəs
interspinous
ˌɪntəˈspaɪnəs
laurustinus
ˌlɔːrəˈstaɪnəs
Linus
ˈlaɪnəs
Longinus
lɒnˈdʒaɪnəs
minus
ˈmaɪnəs
Ninus
ˈnaɪnəs
Paulinus
pɔːˈlaɪnəs
Plotinus
plɒˈtaɪnəs
Quirinus
kwɪˈraɪnəs
sinus
ˈsaɪnəs
spinous
ˈspaɪnəs
vinous
ˈvaɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERPENTINOUS

serpent
serpentiform
serpentine
serpentinely
serpentinic
serpentiningly
serpentinise
serpentinite
serpentinize
Serpentis
serpentise
serpentize
serpentlike
serpentry
serpiginous
serpiginously
serpigo
SERPS
serpula
serpulid

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERPENTINOUS

aluminous
bituminous
conterminous
coterminous
gelatinous
glutinous
heinous
luminous
mountainous
mucilaginous
mucinous
mutinous
nous
numinous
oleaginous
ominous
pulchritudinous
ruinous
vertiginous
villainous
voluminous

Synonyms and antonyms of serpentinous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «serpentinous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SERPENTINOUS

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Translator English - Chinese

serpentinous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

serpentinitas
570 millions of speakers

English

serpentinous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

serpentinous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

serpentinous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

серпентинизированных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serpentinous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

serpentinous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

serpentines
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Serpentinous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Serpentingestein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

serpentinous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

serpentinous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Serpentinous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

serpentinous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

serpentinous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वृद्ध स्त्री
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

serpentinous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

serpentiniti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

serpentinous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

серпентінізірованних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

serpentinous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

serpentinous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

serpentinous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

serpentinous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

serpentinous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of serpentinous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SERPENTINOUS»

The term «serpentinous» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.199 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SERPENTINOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about serpentinous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERPENTINOUS»

Discover the use of serpentinous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to serpentinous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of ...
Serpentinous Breccia. Llanfechell, Anglesey. Composed of fragments of dark greenish serpentine cemented with veins of steatite. 74. Green Serpentine. Llanfechell, Anglesey. With apparently a schistose structure. 75. Compact brecciated ...
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1865
2
A descriptive catalogue of the Rock Specimens in the museum ...
16 CAMBRIAN ROCKS, 72. Green Serpentine. Llanfechell, Anglesey. With veins of steatite and calc spar. 73. Serpentinous Breccia. Llanfechell, Anglesey. Composed of fragments of dark greenish serpentine cemented with veins of steatite.
C. Ramsay, 1862
3
Chromium Geochemistry of Serpentinous Sediment in the Willow ...
Chromium-bearing minerals such as Cr-spinel appear to be the main source of Cr in the sediment; however, Cr-bearing silicates and clay minerals are additional Cr sources. Aqueous Cr concentrations in the sediment are
United U.S. Department Of The Interior, Christopher J Oze, 2013
4
Metalliferous Mineral Deposits of the Cascade Range in Oregon
The feldspar yielded sericite, kaolin, calcite, and chloritic and serpentinous products; the augite gave chlorite and serpentines. These alteration products occupy the places of the original minerals. Secondary minerals, however, occur in other ...
Eugene Callaghan, Arthur Francis Buddington, 1938
5
A Geographical Manual
The whole seems a mass ejected from heneath, which has overflowed the stratified rocks, appearing to cut through them on the northward, beyond the north -west knoll, where there is a good section of the serpentinous mass resting on the  ...
Henry Thomas De La Beche, 1832
6
Bulletin
The following analyses represent talcose and serpentinous rocks of varied characters. Analyses of talcose and serpentinous rocks. A. Dark-green serpentine, Rowe, Massachusetts. Described by B. K. Emerson in Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol.
‎1920
7
Geology of the Broken Hill lode and Barrier Ranges mineral field
When examined in thin sections under the microscope, the rock is seen to consist of a colourless isotropic groundmass and bands of vividly polarising serpentinous fibres. The “lattice structure," so characteristic of serpentine after hornblende, ...
J.B. Jaquet
8
Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone
Some marble is highly coloured; black, grey, green, pink, red, and yellow marbles are common. Serpentine (or serpentinous) marble, also known as ophicalcite, is a general name for marble containing a greater or lesser amount of the mineral ...
F G Dimes, J. Ashurst, 2007
9
Geology and Oil Resources of the West Border of the San ...
Big Blue serpentinous member. — The upper member of the Vaqueros, locally known as the Big Blue, and in this report called the Big Blue serpentinous member, is formed largely of small flakes of serpentine which make up a fine- grained, ...
Robert van Vleck Anderson, Robert Wallace Pack, 1915
10
Talc Resources of the United States
5. Serpentinous tremolite, "10A ore," Talcville, N.Y. Typical A-2 type talc, relatively common in Talcville region. 6. Streaked buff to chalky-tan serpentinous tremolite, "regular ore," Talcville, N.Y. Talc somewhat transitional between A-2 and A-3 ...
Alfred Herman Chidester, Albert Edward John Engel, Lauren Albert Wright, 1964

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