Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or containing mica; resembling mica or partaking of its properties, especially that of occurring in foliated masses consisting of separable laminæ: as, micaceous structure.
- Figuratively, sparkling.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or containing mica.
- adj. Resembling mica, laminated, sparkling.
- adj. figuratively sparkling; brilliant
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminæ or leaves like mica.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. hydrous silicates of or relating to or resembling mica
Examples
“It is rust of iron, finely crystallized: from its resemblance to mica, it is often called micaceous iron.”
“It is rust of iron, finely crystallised: from its resemblance to mica, it is often called micaceous iron.”
“a kind of micaceous schist, and in the western is granitic gneiss.”
“And the contemporary focus includes some seductive objects that resonate with earlier pieces, such as a voluptuously curved jar of glistening micaceous clay by Lonnie Vigil of the Nambe Pueblo, displayed near a superb assortment of more traditional Pueblo pottery.”
“Everything cooked in micaceous clay pots comes out sweet.”
“All the rocks are of Pliocene or Pleistocene, fluviatile origin, and consist mainly of sandstones, conglomerates, quartzites, shales and micaceous sandstone.”
“The rolling to hilly well-dissected upland contains mostly gneiss and schist bedrock that is covered with clayey and micaceous saprolite.”
“It is a coarse reddish-brown fabric, slightly micaceous, with limestone inclusions and shiny black specks.”
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“To the south and east this is replaced by Jurassic calcareous and micaceous siltstones and sandstones.”
“This condition is characterized by thick, red plaque with a white, silvery micaceous scale on top.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘micaceous’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
mabble, mabsoot, macadamize, macarism, macarize, macaronic, macerate, macerator, machair, machairodont, machicolation, machinule and 898 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 284 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Words I learned & loved in Gemmology
chatoyancy, amygdaloidal, birefraction, conchoidal, luster, adamantine, crystalline, euhedral, subhedral, anhedral, cabochon, culet and 69 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for micaceous.

hernesheir Speaking of micaceous schists, twinned crystals of staurolite resembling dark or smoky crystal crosses are sometimes found therein, along with lovely little grape-juice colored garnets.
I invite someone else to tell me why staurolite (Fe,Mg,Zn)2Al9(Si,Al)4O20(OH)4 is the state mineral of Georgia. Jan 1, 2009
chained_bear "'You know, of course, that in the micaceous schist of those parts the arbutus is a usual sight and that therefore Charaxes jasius, the Two-Tailed Pasha, is not so rare as he is elsewhere in Europe. It was the sight of one sailing by that brought you to mind.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 10 Mar 18, 2008