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vuggy

/ˈvʌɡi/

vuggy adjective: containing vugs.

Adjective

vuggy (comparative more vuggy or vuggier, superlative most vuggy or vuggiest)

  1. Containing vugs.
    • Parts of the resistant veins have been strongly leached and consists of vuggy, porous quartz ; elsewhere compact quartz has replaced most of the constituents in the original rock.1962, Thomas A. Steven, James C. Ratté, Geology and Ore Deposits, Summitville District, San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper 343), Geological Survey (U.S.) (publisher)...
    • The diachronous layers under the lagoons, when traced seaward, become more and more vuggy, as cement is more patchily developed, and eventually pass into separate lumps (Taylor and Illing, 1969).1975, Robin G. C. Bathurst, Carbonate Sediments and Their Diagenesis, page 371

Forms of vuggy

comparativemore vuggy
comparativevuggier
superlativemost vuggy
superlativevuggiest

Origin of vuggy

From vug + -y.

Words formed from vuggy

Words that rhyme with vuggy

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about vuggy

What does vuggy mean?
Vuggy means containing vugs.
What part of speech is vuggy?
Vuggy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce vuggy?
Vuggy is pronounced /ˈvʌɡi/.

Words near vuggy in the dictionary

  1. Vues
  2. vug
  3. vugg
  4. vugginess
  5. vuggs
  6. vuggy
  7. vugh
  8. vughs
  9. Vught
  10. vughy
  11. vugly

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