Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In petrography, partly crystalline, partly glassy: a texture frequently developed in volcanic lavas. Also
hemicrystalline . Seemerocrystalline .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
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- adjective geology having both
glass andcrystalline components
Etymologies
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hypo- + crystalline
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