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A
unknown · 78% connection
The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Albite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Anisopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Argillite
noun · 78% connection
Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Asterism
noun · 78% connection
A constellation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Biotite
noun · 78% connection
Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Bonito
noun · 78% connection
A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Clay
noun · 78% connection
A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Element
noun · 78% connection
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Foliation
noun · 78% connection
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Glimmer
verb · 78% connection
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering la…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Gneissic
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Granitic
adjective · 78% connection
Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Granitoid
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Hypogene
adjective · 78% connection
Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Intermediate
adjective · 78% connection
Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
