Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as pœcilitic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Geol.) See pœcilitic.

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  • adjective geology Describing the texture of an igneous rock that has small crystals of one mineral scattered among larger crystals of another

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek ποικίλος (poikilos, "scattered")

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