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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mineral that encloses a different mineral.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mineral inclosing another, or formed around another by its partial metamorphism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A crystal of one species inclosing one of another species. See endomorph.

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  • noun mineralogy a mineral enclosed within another

Etymologies

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peri- + -morph

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  • Per"i*morph: A crystal of one species inclosing one of another species.

    January 17, 2009