Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mineralogy, cleaving in more directions than one parallel to the axis, the faces being all similar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mineralogy
Cleaving in more than one direction,parallel to theaxis .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek, "cut off all around". See peri- and tome.
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