Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the appearance of ruins: noting various minerals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mineralogy Having the appearance of
ruins , or of the ruins ofhouses .
Etymologies
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ruin + -iform
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Examples
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Within Australia, there are several examples of tower karst landscapes in quartzites, such as the ruiniform relief of Arnhemland Plateau, the Watarrka and Keep River national parks in the Northern Territories, and Monolith Valley in New South Wales.
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