Associations to the word «Accretionary»

Wiktionary

ACCRETIONARY, adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion
ACCRETIONARY WEDGE, noun. (geology) The accumulation of surface sediment formed between a subducting oceanic crustal plate and a continental tectonic plate, as it is scraped from off the top of the oceanic crustal plate.

Dictionary definition

ACCRETIONARY, adjective. Marked or produced by accretion.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats