AMYGDALOID
\ˈamɪɡdˌalɔ͡ɪd], \ˈamɪɡdˌalɔɪd], \ˈa_m_ɪ_ɡ_d_ˌa_l_ɔɪ_d]\
Definitions of AMYGDALOID
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
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Alt. of Amygdaloidal
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A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
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Alt. of Amygdaloidal
By Noah Webster.
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Applied to certain igneous rocks containing small almond-shaped cavities filled with agate, jasper, and other minerals, having the appearance of almonds in a cake.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Almond-shaped. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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