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shist

shist is the alternative form of schist.

Meaning of schist

Noun

schist (countable and uncountable, plural schists)

  1. Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
    • Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.1890, George Huntington Williams, “The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan”, in US Geological Survey, number 62, page 74

Forms of shist

pluralshists

Questions about shist

What is shist the alternative form of?
Shist is the alternative form of schist.

Words near shist in the dictionary

  1. shishyas
  2. Shisler
  3. Shislers
  4. shiso
  5. shiss
  6. shist
  7. shistose
  8. shistosome
  9. shistosomiasis
  10. shists
  11. shit

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