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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of relatively rare minerals that are chemically very similar to feldspars, but have too little silica to qualify as feldspars.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Feldspar or some other species (nephelite, sodalite, leucite, and the scapolites) which plays a similar part in the composition of rocks.
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- noun mineralogy Any of a small group of
igneous ,plutonic , andvolcanic minerals formed inmagma that did not contain enoughsilica to satisfy all the chemical bonds. Feldspathoids are silica-poor variants of thefeldspar group. - adjective mineralogy Resembling a
feldspar .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[feldspath (obsolete variant of feldspar, from obsolete German Feldspath, feldspar; see feldspar) + –oid.]
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Feld, field (from Middle High German veld, from Old High German feld) + Spath, spar + Oid, like or resembling.
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