Cherty: alternatives and connections

A suffix denoting full of, containing, having the qualities of, like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a glo…

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…

Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (…

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a…

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the news…

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one…

huge fruit native to southeastern Asia ‘smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven’; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts

The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-col…