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anorthitic

anorthitic adjective: composed of or resembling anorthite.

Adjective

anorthitic (comparative more anorthitic, superlative most anorthitic)

  1. Composed of or resembling anorthite.
    • Next followed a period of activity in which basic rocks were produced by submarine eruptions—lavas and scoriae of anorthitic character, palagonitic tuffs, and basaltic ashes; and finally from the crater, which must have been a vast lake of fire like those in the Sandwich Islands, poured forth quiet...1884, "St Paul" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXI, p. 189

Forms of anorthitic

comparativemore anorthitic
superlativemost anorthitic

Origin of anorthitic

From anorthite + -ic.

Questions about anorthitic

What does anorthitic mean?
Anorthitic means composed of or resembling anorthite.
What part of speech is anorthitic?
Anorthitic is an adjective.

Words near anorthitic in the dictionary

  1. anorogenically
  2. anorogenous
  3. anorthic
  4. anorthite
  5. anorthites
  6. anorthitic
  7. anorthoclase
  8. anorthoclases
  9. anorthominasragrite
  10. anorthopia
  11. anorthopias

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