cataractine (kataraktin)

[ The plain below these cataractine glaciers was piling up with the débris, while torrents of the melted rubbish found their way, foaming and muddy, to the sea, carrying gravel and rocks along with them. Kane, Sec. Grinn. Exp., I. 334. cataractous (kat'a-rak-tus), a. [ us .] Partaking of the nature of a cataract in the eye.