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poikiloblastic

poikiloblastic adjective: describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts.

Adjective

poikiloblastic (comparative more poikiloblastic, superlative most poikiloblastic)

  1. Describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts

Forms of poikiloblastic

comparativemore poikiloblastic
superlativemost poikiloblastic

Origin of poikiloblastic

From poikiloblast + -ic.

Words formed from poikiloblastic

Questions about poikiloblastic

What does poikiloblastic mean?
Poikiloblastic means describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts.
What part of speech is poikiloblastic?
Poikiloblastic is an adjective.

Words near poikiloblastic in the dictionary

  1. poignards
  2. poikilitic
  3. poikilitically
  4. poikilo-
  5. poikiloblast
  6. poikiloblastic
  7. poikiloblastically
  8. poikiloblasts
  9. poikilocapnic
  10. poikilocarynoses
  11. poikilocarynosis

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