Word.ws English Dictionary

leukocratic

leukocratic is the alternative form of leucocratic.

Meaning of leucocratic

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 leukocratic

comparativemore leukocratic
superlativemost leukocratic

Origin of leukocratic

From leuko- + -cratic.

Questions about leukocratic

What is leukocratic the alternative form of?
Leukocratic is the alternative form of leucocratic.

Words near leukocratic in the dictionary

  1. leukocidins
  2. leukoconcentration
  3. leukocoria
  4. leukocoric
  5. leukocortical
  6. leukocratic
  7. leukocytal
  8. leukocytapheresis
  9. leukocyte
  10. leukocytemia
  11. leukocytes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leukocratic (page history and authors); leucocratic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “leukocratic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/leukocratic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.