Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to leucite; containing or resembling leucite.

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

  • adjective (Min.) Containing leucite.

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  • adjective mineralogy Of or pertaining to leucite.

Etymologies

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leucite +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • Their origin is not connected with any determined species of rock: they break out in basalt, trachyte, leucitic porphyry (somma), or in doleritic mixtures of augite and labradorite; and hence arise the different nature and external conformation of these inclosures of craters.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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