Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, the name given by Boričky (1882) to spherulites with radial arrangement of component crystals.
  • noun A member of the genus Radiolites.
  • noun A variety of natrolite, occurring in radiated forms in the zircon-syenite of southern Norway.

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

  • noun (Paleon.) A hippurite.

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  • noun geology A form of igneous rock that has a radial, fanlike texture of crystals; a hippurite

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Examples

  • In drawing his weapon to him, Buck's eyes had fallen on his wrist-watch, the radiolite hands of which indicated twenty minutes after twelve.

    Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903

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