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from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a porphyritic rock containing spherulites in place of the usual phenocrysts.
- In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification (see
rock ), having megascopic spherulites in a ground-mass; noting the character of a porphyry with megascopic spherulites.
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