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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not having the true form; characterized by or exhibiting pseudomorphism; in mineralogy, noting substances having an external form, usually crystalline, which does not properly belong to themselves. See pseudomorph.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not having the true form.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
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“The latter mode of origin is suggested by the frequent occurrence of calamine pseudomorphous after calcite, that is, having the form of calcite crystals.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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