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xenomorphically

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xen⋅o⋅mor⋅phic

[zen-uh-mawr-fik, zee-nuh-]
–adjective
1. Also, allotriomorphic. Petrography. noting or pertaining to a mineral grain that does not have its characteristic crystalline form but has a form impressed on it by surrounding grains; anhedral.
2. in an unusual form; having a strange form.

Origin:
1885–90; xeno- + -morphic


xen⋅o⋅mor⋅phi⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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