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feldspathic

[ feld-spath-ik, fel-, feld-spath-, fel- ]

adjective

, Mineralogy.
  1. of, relating to, or containing feldspar.


feldspathic

/ fĕld-spăthĭk,fĕl- /

  1. Relating to or containing feldspar.


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Other Words From

  • nonfeld·spathic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feldspathic1

1825–35; < German Feldspath ( feldspar ) + -ic
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Example Sentences

At many places also gray feldspathic sandstones and basal conglomerates appear.

One of these, a mass of red feldspathic granite, is twenty-five feet thick and fifty feet long.

Both substances, the infusible and the fusible, are productions of the same geological formation,—decomposed feldspathic rock.

Sienite and feldspar succeeded in our descent to the snow line, where we found a feldspathic granite.

It occurs in the various feldspars and feldspathic rocks, and in mica.

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