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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A crystal foreign to the igneous rock in which it occurs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In petrography, a term proposed by Sollas for a crystal in an igneous rock which has been included by the igneous magma before the solidification of the rock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a crystal that does not occur in a specific igneous rock

Etymologies

  1. xeno- + cryst(al).

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‘xenocryst’ has been looked up 435 times, added to 4 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 21.