Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a texture similar to that of granulated sugar. Used of rocks and minerals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
saccharoidal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a texture similar to that of granulated sugar. Used of rocks and minerals.
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Examples
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This is composed of trap (zeolite, probably mesotype) of a younger age than the deep stratum of tufa in which the Chobe has formed its bed, for, at the point where they come together, the tufa has been transformed into saccharoid limestone.
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The geologist would probably describe the Sarsen stones of Wiltshire as "masses of saccharoid sandstone," which in plain English might be rendered as boulders closely resembling gigantic lumps of coarse sugar.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday Frank Stevens 1896
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The gangue of these veins is usually a granular white quart (saccharoid).
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a violet ground, as in the L. pavonazza; and "of broken shells, hardly discernible, together with very shining and saccharoid particles of carbonate of lime," as in the _Marmor Schiston_ of the ancients -- the
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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