English Explanatory Dictionary

megacryst

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any crystalline grain in an igneous or metamorphic rock that is much larger than those of the surrounding matrix

Word forms

megacryst megacrysts

Etymology

mega- + -cryst

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