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ophitic

ophitic adjective: having crystals of feldspar interspersed with plates of augite.

Adjective (1)

ophitic (comparative more ophitic, superlative most ophitic)

  1. Having crystals of feldspar interspersed with plates of augite.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Ophitic

Ophitic (comparative more Ophitic, superlative most Ophitic)

  1. Of or relating to the Ophites.

Forms of ophitic

comparativemore ophitic
superlativemost ophitic
comparativemore Ophitic
superlativemost Ophitic

Origin of ophitic

From ophite + -ic.

From Ophite + -ic.

Questions about ophitic

What does ophitic mean?
Ophitic means having crystals of feldspar interspersed with plates of augite.
What part of speech is ophitic?
Ophitic is an adjective.

Words near ophitic in the dictionary

  1. ophistokont
  2. ophistotic
  3. ophistotics
  4. ophite
  5. ophites
  6. ophitic
  7. ophitically
  8. Ophitism
  9. Ophiuchid
  10. Ophiuchids
  11. Ophiuchus

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