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peritomous

peritomous adjective: cleaving in more than one direction, parallel to the axis, the faces all being similar.

Adjective

peritomous (not comparable)

  1. Cleaving in more than one direction, parallel to the axis, the faces all being similar.
    • peritomous antimony glance
    • peritomous augite spar

Examples of peritomous in a sentence

  • peritomous lead baryte
  • peritomous ruby blende

Origin of peritomous

From peri- + -tomous.

Questions about peritomous

What does peritomous mean?
Peritomous means cleaving in more than one direction, parallel to the axis, the faces all being similar.
How do you use peritomous in a sentence?
peritomous lead baryte
What part of speech is peritomous?
Peritomous is an adjective.

Words near peritomous in the dictionary

  1. peritomies
  2. peritomize
  3. peritomized
  4. peritomizes
  5. peritomizing
  6. peritomous
  7. peritomy
  8. Periton
  9. peritonaeal
  10. peritonaeum
  11. peritonea

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