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trachytic

trachytic adjective: relating to or composed of trachyte.

Adjective

trachytic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or composed of trachyte.
    • One is overwhelmed by the contemplation of these innumerable sculptures, worked with delicacy and artistic feeling in a hard, intractable, trachytic rock, and all found in one tropical island.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 166

Origin of trachytic

From trachyte + -ic.

Questions about trachytic

What does trachytic mean?
Trachytic means relating to or composed of trachyte.
What part of speech is trachytic?
Trachytic is an adjective.

Words near trachytic in the dictionary

  1. trachypones
  2. trachypterid
  3. trachypterids
  4. trachyte
  5. trachytes
  6. trachytic
  7. trachytid
  8. trachytids
  9. trachytoid
  10. trachyuropodid
  11. trachyuropodids

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