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leucocratic

leucocratic adjective: light in color, containing at least 90% felsic minerals.

Adjective

leucocratic (comparative more leucocratic, superlative most leucocratic)

  1. Light in color, containing at least 90% felsic minerals.
    • Occasionally the opinion is advanced that the formation of the leucocratic, granitic-granodioritic portions of the heterogeneous in-situ migmatites is due to a metasomatic process, i.e., to the addition of “emanations” from depth.2013, H.G.F. Winkler, Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks, page 325

Forms of leucocratic

comparativemore leucocratic
superlativemost leucocratic
alternative formleukocratic

Origin of leucocratic

From leuco- + -cratic.

Questions about leucocratic

What does leucocratic mean?
Leucocratic means light in color, containing at least 90% felsic minerals.
What part of speech is leucocratic?
Leucocratic is an adjective.

Words near leucocratic in the dictionary

  1. leucocins
  2. leucocoprineaceous
  3. leucocortical
  4. leucocrate
  5. leucocrates
  6. leucocratic
  7. leucocrit
  8. leucocrits
  9. leucocyanide
  10. leucocyanides
  11. leucocyanidin

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