xenoblast

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A crystal forming in a metamorphic rock that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and which gets its shape from bordering crystals.

Word forms

xenoblast xenoblasts

Etymology

From xeno- + -blast.

Related words

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