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microlitic

[ mahy-kruh-lit-ik ]

adjective

, Petrography.
  1. of or relating to the texture of a porphyry whose groundmass consists of microlites in a glassy matrix.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of microlitic1

First recorded in 1875–80; microlite + -ic

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