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merohedral

merohedral adjective: describing a form of a crystal that has half (or quarter, eighth etc) of the faces of the normal form.

Adjective

merohedral (not comparable)

  1. Describing a form of a crystal that has half (or quarter, eighth etc) of the faces of the normal form

Origin of merohedral

From mero- + -hedral.

Words formed from merohedral

Questions about merohedral

What does merohedral mean?
Merohedral means describing a form of a crystal that has half (or quarter, eighth etc) of the faces of the normal form.
What part of speech is merohedral?
Merohedral is an adjective.

Words near merohedral in the dictionary

  1. merogonic
  2. merogonies
  3. merogonous
  4. merogons
  5. merogony
  6. merohedral
  7. merohedrally
  8. merohedric
  9. merohedrism
  10. merohedry
  11. meroi

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