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

  • noun A metamorphic mineral that does not have characteristic mineral faces due to the conditions in which it grew.

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  • noun A crystal forming in a metamorphic rock that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and which gets its shape from bordering crystals.

Etymologies

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xeno- + -blast

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