Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Distinctly crystalline: opposed to cryptocrystalline.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to
cryptocrystalline .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Distinctly
crystalline ; used of rocks.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek for "visible" + English crystalline.
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