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cataclases

cataclases is the plural of cataclasis.

Meaning of cataclasis

Noun

cataclasis (plural cataclases)

  1. cataclastic rock (a type of metamorphic rock that has been wholly or partly formed by the progressive fracturing and comminution of existing rock)
  2. A process of formation of such rock.

Questions about cataclases

What is cataclases the plural of?
Cataclases is the plural of cataclasis.

Words near cataclases in the dictionary

  1. catachrestically
  2. catachronism
  3. catachronisms
  4. Catachrysea
  5. catachthonian
  6. cataclases
  7. cataclasis
  8. cataclasite
  9. cataclasites
  10. cataclasm
  11. cataclasms

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