poikilitic

[poi-kuh-lit-ik]

poi·ki·lit·ic

[poi-kuh-lit-ik]
adjective Petrography.
(of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.

Origin:
1830–40; < Greek poikíl(os) various + -ite1 + -ic
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To poikilitic

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Poikilitic is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT