English Explanatory Dictionary

phacolith

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A lens-shaped mass that occurs in an anticlinal crest or synclinal trough.

Word forms

phacolith phacoliths

Etymology

Coined by English geologist Alfred Harker in 1909 as phacolite, from phaco- (“lens”) + -lite or -lith (“rock”).

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