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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an imperfect crystalline form: said of phenocrysts in a rock which are intermediate between those having a well-developed form (euhedral) and those destitute of this (anhedral).
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- adjective mineralogy Having some
crystal faces and somegrainy surfaces; neither entirelyeuhedral nor entirelyanhedral .
Etymologies
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sub- + -hedral
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