English Dictionary

petroleous

形容詞

Containing petroleum. / Pertaining to the mining of petroleum. / Characteristic of oil or petroleum.

日本語の意味

石油を含む / 石油の採掘に関する / 油または石油固有の

The petroleous sheen on the shoreline warned volunteers about the oil spill's extent.

海岸に見られた石油を含んだ輝きが、ボランティアたちに油流出の広がりを警告した。

意味（1）

Containing petroleum.

The fire-damp in coal mines is a highly elastic petroleous effluvia. bursting from deep seams of fatter and less consolidated veins of coaal, by reason of the want of a sufficient resistance or circulation of the common air in such mines.

意味（2）

Pertaining to the mining of petroleum.

The evil day may in some cases be staved off by sinking new wells and by the discovery of new territory adjacent to the old, but this can be only a temporary expedient, and as the petroleous glory of Franklin has passed away so will also pass away the gaseous glory of Findlay and Pittsburg.

意味（3）

Characteristic of oil or petroleum.

I ought not to omit to add that this formation in addition to its other peculiarities is characterised by a notable proportion of bitumen, so that a strong petroleous odor is perceptible immediately on the application of the hydrochloric acid and not less so after the subsidence of the effervescence,

more petroleous （ comparative ）

most petroleous （ superlative ）