xenoblastic
əˌblæst, ˈzi noun Mineralogy.
a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
Related forms
xen·o·blas·tic, adjective
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xenoblast  (zěn'ə-blāst', zē'nə-) Pronunciation Key
A mineral that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and that has formed in a rock that has undergone metamorphism. |
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Xenoblastic
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| 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. |
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