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leucites

leucites is the plural of leucite.

Meaning of leucite

Noun

leucite (countable and uncountable, plural leucites)

  1. A mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, leucite is a potassium feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, leucite weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.
  2. A leucoplast.

Questions about leucites

What is leucites the plural of?
Leucites is the plural of leucite.

Words near leucites in the dictionary

  1. leuciscines
  2. leuciscins
  3. leucism
  4. leucistic
  5. leucite
  6. leucites
  7. leucitic
  8. leucitite
  9. leucitites
  10. leucititic
  11. leucitoid

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