Word.ws English Dictionary

phosphoritic

phosphoritic adjective: pertaining to, resembling, or containing phosphorite.

Adjective

phosphoritic (comparative more phosphoritic, superlative most phosphoritic)

  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or containing phosphorite.
    • phosphoritic meal
    • phosphoritic rock

Forms of phosphoritic

comparativemore phosphoritic
superlativemost phosphoritic

Origin of phosphoritic

From phosphorite + -ic.

Questions about phosphoritic

What does phosphoritic mean?
Phosphoritic means pertaining to, resembling, or containing phosphorite.
What part of speech is phosphoritic?
Phosphoritic is an adjective.

Words near phosphoritic in the dictionary

  1. phosphorism
  2. Phosphorist
  3. Phosphorists
  4. phosphorite
  5. phosphorites
  6. phosphoritic
  7. phosphorization
  8. phosphorizations
  9. phosphorize
  10. phosphorized
  11. phosphorizes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phosphoritic (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: “phosphoritic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phosphoritic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.