minerallyadj.
/ˈmɪn(ə)rəli/, /ˈmɪn(ə)rl̩i/, U.S. /ˈmɪn(ə)rəli/ Esp. in descriptions of wines: tasting of minerals or mineral salts; having a flavour suggestive of minerals.
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1975 P. V. Price Taste of Wine ii. 17/1 Volcanic soils can produce wines with a curious minerally aftertaste.
1988 R. Taylor Cartoon Woods iv. 34 I pumped myself a cold glass of minerally water.
2000 Wine May 11/1 The fragrant, floral apple and lemony fruit—enlivened by a minerally streak—will make the wait worthwhile.
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minerallyadv.
/ˈmɪn(ə)rəli/, /ˈmɪn(ə)rl̩i/, U.S. /ˈmɪn(ə)rəli/ 1. With regard to mineral resources or content; in relation to minerals.
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1865 S. Bowles Across Continent 18 We passed on to and through the Great Central Desert of the Continent..separating..the agriculturally rich prairies of the Mississippi Valley, from the minerally rich slopes and valleys of the Rocky Mountains.
1883 Littell's Living Age 15 Sept. 704/1 No species requiring humus or minerally rich soils prosper in those regions.
1901 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 194 240 The plot itself is not minerally uniform.
1968 C. W. Schwabe & A. Kilejian in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. iii. vi. 503 Their results showed that..92% of the cercariae penetrated in..minerally reconstituted water.
1974 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 61 546 A strategically located and minerally rich African state.
1996 Ecology 77 2519/2 We analyzed samples directly, not by the difference between total SOM [= soil organic matter] and minerally associated organic matter.
2. poetic. So as to resemble a mineral.Apparently an isolated use.
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1994 I. Crichton Smith Funeral in Ends & Beginnings 14 The sea stormily glittered, minerally coloured.
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