Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of albite occurring as elongated white crystals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of albite occuring in the crystalline schists of the Alps, the crystals of which are usually peculiar in being elongated in the direction of the macrodiagonal axis.
- noun In botany, a periclinal cell-wall. Jackson, Glossary.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek periklinēs, sloping on all sides : peri-, peri- + klīnein, to slope; see klei- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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The flowers, as before hinted, are thistle-shaped; the pericline or knob just under the florets is cone-shaped, covered with evenly set and pointed scales, green, edged with a brown margin, set round with short bristle-like teeth.
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