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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mineral crystal formed or affected by paramorphism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mineralogy, a pseudomorph formed by a change in molecular structure without a change of chemical composition: thus, rutile occurs as a paramorph after brookite, and aragonite after calcite. See
pseudomorph and paramorphism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters, by a change in crystal structure without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite; called also
allomorph . - noun (Biol.) A taxonomic variant observed within a species, for which a more specific term has not been assigned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A kind of
pseudomorph in which there has been a change ofphysical characteristics withoutalteration ofchemical composition , as in the change ofaragonite tocalcite .
Etymologies
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para- + -morph
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knitandpurl commented on the word paramorph
"And those babes, dressed in your old cobweb clothes
—mercury, King's Lynn silk, fey dappled moon—
not changelings, those, but your dear dread own,
paramorph whose name seesaws."
-from "Oblique Strategies" by Cynthia Zarin, in The Ada Poems, p 50
June 5, 2011