Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not having the true form; characterized by or exhibiting pseudomorphism; in mineralogy, noting substances having an external form, usually crystalline, which does not properly belong to themselves. See
pseudomorph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not having the true form.
- adjective a crystal which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.
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- adjective Not having the
true form .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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The latter mode of origin is suggested by the frequent occurrence of calamine pseudomorphous after calcite, that is, having the form of calcite crystals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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