Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a name proposed by Vogelsang for linear groups of the most elementary products of devitrification, called by him globulites. See margarite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.

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  • noun mineralogy A kind of crystallite with a slender acicular form.

Etymologies

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Latin longus long + -lite.

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