soligenous
English
editAdjective
editsoligenous (not comparable)
- (hydrology, of the water of a region) Produced by groundwater or an inflow of surface water, and not by local precipitation.
- Synonym: soligenic
- 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 .