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phacoliths

phacoliths is the plural of phacolith.

Meaning of phacolith

Noun

phacolith (plural phacoliths)

  1. A lens-shaped mass that occurs in an anticlinal crest or synclinal trough.
    • This body is a phacolith intruded along the gneiss-schist boundary in the trough of a syncline that plunges 16° southeast.1947, Virgil Everett Barnes, Raymond Fillmore Dawson, George Ashworth Parkinson, Building Stones of Central Texas - Volume 19, page 21

Questions about phacoliths

What is phacoliths the plural of?
Phacoliths is the plural of phacolith.

Words near phacoliths in the dictionary

  1. phacoiridencleisis
  2. phacolite
  3. phacolites
  4. phacolith
  5. phacolithic
  6. phacoliths
  7. phacolysis
  8. phacolytic
  9. phacomatoses
  10. phacomatosis
  11. phacometer

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