Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mineralogy, having crystals with one distinct diagonal cleavage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mineralogy Having a single,
distinct ,diagonal cleavage ; said ofcrystals .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek cut through. Compare diatom.
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Examples
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As might be expected, the water was murky and rich with diatomous swarms.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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Therefore he stuck with the pure blues, throwing the grays back, fishing for the diatomous forms with mounting enthusi-asm.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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Inside the safety of a suit again Evan felt more like his old confident self, even if that suit had been grown in an alien pond by diatomous fauna instead of having rolled off the assembly line of one of Samstead's factories.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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