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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having oblique bases or faces: applied to a class of crystals, belonging to the monoclinic system, which have a single plane of symmetry but no axis of symmetry. Clinohedrite belongs to this class. See symmetry. Also called the domatic and gonioid class.

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