Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, the name given by Boričky (1882) to spherulites with radial arrangement of component crystals.
- noun A member of the genus Radiolites.
- noun A variety of natrolite, occurring in radiated forms in the zircon-syenite of southern Norway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A hippurite.
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- noun geology A form of
igneous rock that has aradial ,fanlike texture ofcrystals ; ahippurite
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Examples
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In drawing his weapon to him, Buck's eyes had fallen on his wrist-watch, the radiolite hands of which indicated twenty minutes after twelve.
Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903
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